From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter) Subject: Re: rebuilding for MIPS cross-compile 5 Apr 1997 17:25:28 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3346E737.7BF4.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> References: <199704050509 DOT PAA17283 AT mundook DOT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Original-To: Fergus Henderson Original-CC: Scott Mintz , gnu-win32 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Fergus Henderson wrote: > Try > > bash$ FOO=hello echo $FOO What are you expecting that to do? $FOO gets evaluated when the line is read, before FOO is set, on *any* system. Try instead bash$ FOO=hello; echo $FOO; unset FOO -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".