Question re. export environment variable

Hello, I'm using cygwin bash 2.05b-8 (it's actually gnu). I thought that $HOSTNAME was an environment variable. When I run gnu make (I'm pretty sure this is not a make problem), $(HOSTNAME) is empty. It gets fixed if I do export HOSTNAME before running make. Is there a way to check if the

Re: Question re. export environment variable

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I'm using cygwin bash 2.05b-8 (it's actually gnu). I thought that $HOSTNAME was an environment variable. When I run gnu make (I'm pretty sure this is not a make problem), $(HOSTNAME) is empty. It gets fixed if I do export HOSTNAME before

Re: Question re. export environment variable

Fred, perhaps this will help: echo $TEST # Test has no value, hence the blank line. $ TEST=noexport # Set but not exported $ echo $TEST noexport $ env|grep TEST # Nothing found, no output. $ export TEST # Export it. $ env|grep TEST # And now it's found in the environment. TEST=noexport $

Re: Question re. export environment variable

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Fred Ma wrote: Hello, I'm using cygwin bash 2.05b-8 (it's actually gnu). I thought that $HOSTNAME was an environment variable. When I run gnu make (I'm pretty sure this is not a make problem), $(HOSTNAME) is empty. It gets fixed if I

Re: Question re. export environment variable

Thanks, Bob. That's the way I expected it to work. I was just unsure of whether there was something cygwin-specific, as it seems strange that something like HOSTNAME is not marked for export at the time that it is set. I'll stick it into ~/.bashrc. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton

Re: Question re. export environment variable

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:38:43 -0500 From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question re. export environment variable Thanks, Bob. That's the way I expected it to work. I was just unsure of whether there was something cygwin