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Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:27:44 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygwin version 1.3.21(0.77/3/2) [bash shell :: exporting mixed-case environment]
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:25:58PM +0000, Pratab Ali wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Have been using a much older version of cygwin till now without any 
> problems.
> 
> It has come to our attention that exporting environment variables in the 
> bash shell may be broken.
> 
> scenario:
> 
> $> cd myappdir
> $> export DevOS=WINNT
> $> make
> 
> make is called in a dir which contains a "makefile" file. makefile uses the 
> DevOS environment variable, which according to this version of cygwin is 
> blank (does not exist). This is where the old cygwin had no issues.

Latest bash and cygwin:

$ export DevOS=WINNT
$ env|grep OS
DevOS=WINNT

Corinna

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