Breakage in Make/Bash

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 12:27 PM 11/26/2001, Ross Burton wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We've just updated to the latest cygwin release and suddenly our build
>system broke...
>
>In a rxvt running bash this happens:
>
>$ set | grep HOSTTYPE
>HOSTTYPE=i686
>$ printenv | grep HOSTTYPE
>$
>
>Why is $HOSTTYPE defined in the output of 'set' but not 'printev',
>whereas it used to be (on a cygwin machine which was last updated a few
>weeks ago).  This is probably related to the other issue - in a makefile
>this:
>-------
>test:
>         echo xx${HOSTTYPE}xx
>-------
>
>Produces the output "xxxx".
>
>Is the current bash broken, or is this a weird new "feature"?


A quick search of the mail archives provides an explanation by Chet Ramey,
the Bash maintainer (not just the Cygwin Bash maintainer).  You can also
find the announcement of the availability of 2.05a by Chet with the exact
list of environment variables affected.  There was also much talk about
a number of these variables, the problems the loss of exporting by Bash
caused, and possible solutions.  You'll want to take a peek at the mail
archives for all this information.  There is a planned FAQ for this too.




>PS: where is ed?



Waiting for a maintainer I guess.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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