cygwin version 1.3.21(0.77/3/2) [bash shell :: exporting mixed-case environment]

Pratab Ali pratab_a@hotmail.com
Wed Apr 2 12:26:00 GMT 2003


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.

Closer inspection:
$> env | less

the env output shows that an environment variable has been created but the 
name of the variable is all upper case.

$> export

shows all exports but claims the mixed-case environment variable is 
mixed-case.

We have tried using quotes to enclose variable name and value, but no 
success.


Thanks and regards
Pratab Ali


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