From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: rebuilding for MIPS cross-compile
5 Apr 1997 17:25:28 -0800
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Fergus Henderson wrote:

> Try
> 
>       bash$ FOO=hello echo $FOO

What are you expecting that to do?  $FOO gets evaluated when the
line is read, before FOO is set, on *any* system.  Try instead
bash$ FOO=hello; echo $FOO; unset FOO

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