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John D. Robertson, you wrote: > > I downloaded the cygnus SDK yesterday, and I am very pleased that these > tools have been ported to Win32. I soon attempted to port my tools that > run under Linux and Irix to gnu-win32, and I ran into a problem. > > The "env" command does not set environmental variables as it is supposed > to. For example: > > env ONE=one TWO=two echo_1_2 > > where echo_1_2 is a sh script: > > #!/bin/sh > echo $ONE $TWO > > > will print nothing. I don't know why env doesn't work, but exporting variables from bash does seem to work, so as a workaround I would try something like this: #!/bin/sh # shell script replacement for gnu-win32 broken `env' command eval "$@" Well, that probably stuffs up quoting, but you get the idea... > I have also noticed that it is not possible to > export lower case environmental variable at all. I have seen this > elsewhere in the list. That one, and a few others, are listed on <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh/gnu-win32/bugs-list.html>. -- Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".
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