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Re: rebuilding for MIPS cross-compile
- To: jqb at netcom dot com (Jim Balter)
- Subject: Re: rebuilding for MIPS cross-compile
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:10:06 +1000 (EST)
- Cc: fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU, Scott dot Mintz at po dot cle dot ab dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot 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'
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