Subject: Re: bug with `make' and environment variables
From: [email-masked] (Richard Donkin)

22 Dec 1996 08:57:43 -0800
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> Hi,
> 
> Ran into a bug with make and environment variables with b17.1.
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There is a possibly related bug in Gnu-Win32 b17.1 at least on Win95 - exporting a lower case 
variable name results in an upper case named environment variable, presumably due to Windows 
restrictions (although I have seen lower case env vars on Windows, they just weren't settable from 
command.com or something).

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Richard
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