Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:27:44 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin version 1.3.21(0.77/3/2) [bash shell :: exporting mixed-case environment] Message-ID: <20030402142744.GD18138@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/