make and bash-2.05a-3 problem with environment variables

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 12:32 PM 4/13/2002, Andre Domaschke wrote:
>Environment:
>win2k sp2
>
>Description:
>
>in a makefile:
>
>MAKE=make
>ifndef HOSTNAME
>ifndef COMSPEC
>         HOSTNAME := $(shell uname -n)
>else
>         HOSTNAME := $(shell ver)
>endif
>endif
>
>with bash-2.05-6 no problem
>but with bash-2.05a-3 the HOSTNAME won't be found
>
>i use always the same make version 


Did you check the email archives??  Here's a partial pointer.  

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01580.html

You should be able to track down the specifics from there and find all 
relevant discussions on this subject.



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