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Re: rebuilding for MIPS cross-compile
- To: Scott dot Mintz at po dot cle dot ab dot com (Scott Mintz)
- Subject: Re: rebuilding for MIPS cross-compile
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 15:09:19 +1000 (EST)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com (gnu-win32)
Scott Mintz wrote:
>
> The biggest problem by far, is the fact that exporting environment
> variables doesn't seem to work correctly.
> example:
> bash$ foo=hello echo $foo
>
> bash$
>
> I would expect to see:
> bash$ foo=hello echo $foo
> hello
> bash$
Try
bash$ FOO=hello echo $FOO
and
bash$ foo=hello echo $FOO
The problem is that cygwin32 converts all environment variables to uppercase.
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