Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/06/24/13:43:56
--- Don Baker <dbaker AT mcc DOT com> wrote:
> B20.1 uses GNU make 3.75 which seems to have a bug or mis-feature
> where (DOS) environment variable names are converted to upper case
> when made into makefile variables. (I believe that GNU make 3.77
This is not a "mis-feature" of make but a feature of the cygwin1.dll when
converting from DOS to POSIX.
> fixes this problem, so upgrading may be all that's necessary.
> Unfortunately, I don't know the exact lineage of the make 3.77
> that I have.)
>
Not likely as it isn't make's problem.
> From a DOS shell, set an environment variable with lower case
> letters:
>
> set foo=hello
>
> Then run make on the following makefile:
>
> all:
> echo $(foo)
>
> The echo is empty, unless the makefile variable is changed
> to all upper case, where "hello" is printed. This problem
> does not seem to occur if the environment variable is set
> in bash. (Bash, however has all of the DOS environement
> variables converted to upper case.)
>
If you wish to keep the lower case then
DOS> bash
$ export foo=bar
$ make
> Thanks for looking into this problem.
You're welcome.
===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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