env command does not work correctly.

[Fergus Henderson]

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 >.

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