From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: rebuilding for MIPS cross-compile 5 Apr 1997 19:31:07 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199704060210.MAA13859.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Original-To: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter) Original-Cc: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU, Scott.Mintz@po.cle.ab.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <3346E737.7BF4@netcom.com> from "Jim Balter" at Apr 5, 97 03:58:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Jim Balter, you wrote: > > Fergus Henderson wrote: > > > Try > > > > bash$ FOO=hello echo $FOO > > What are you expecting that to do? $FOO gets evaluated when the > line is read, before FOO is set, on *any* system. Oops. Of course you're right. The command should be bash$ FOO=hello bash -c 'echo $FOO' -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".