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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:52:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Yann Dubost <yann DOT dubost AT capgemini DOT com>
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Subject: Re: eval function not working anymore !?
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Yann Dubost wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  I have been using cygwin for several years now and I have several scripts
> tant do not work anymore since I installed the latest release of cygwin
> (doxnloaded last week).
> The reason is the eval function that I use quite a lot in such ways as :
>
> DOMAINE_LISTE="DOM1 DOM2 DOM3"
> DOM1_MODULES='D1_M1 D1_M2"
> DOM2_MODULES="D2_M1 D2_M2"
>
> for domain in $DOMAINE_LISTE
> do
>    eval MODULES=$"${domain}_MODULES"
>    ...
> done
>
> Before it was working fine, but now echo $MODULES returns "DOM1_MODULES" or
> "DOM2_MODULES" instead of "D1_M1 D1_M2" "D2_M1 D2_M2"
>
> Have you experience such a change ?
> Do you have an idea why ?
> How can I work around this problem (another function to use ?)

This is most likely due to the switch of /bin/sh from ash to bash.  But
you could fix this with something more portable, like

   eval "MODULES=\$${domain}_MODULES"

HTH,
	Igor
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