Greetings, Numien! > While working on diagnosing an issue with autotools, I found Cygwin's > bash seems to not be able to set a variable from backtick substitution, > at least on my system (Cygwin x86_64, updated today, on Win10)
> On a Linux system it works as expected: > $ test=`echo "x86_64-pc-cygwin" | sed 's/-[^-]*$//'`; echo $test > x86_64-pc > On a Cygwin system it doesn't: > $ test=`echo "x86_64-pc-cygwin" | sed 's/-[^-]*$//'`; echo $test > (no output) I'm unable to reproduce it here. > This also happens in scripts (where I originally encountered the > problem), not just on the command line. > Directly outputting it (echo `echo "x86_64-pc-cygwin" | sed > 's/-[^-]*$//'`) works fine, it seems to be specifically related to > setting a variable. > Any suggestions? Any BLODA? -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, February 27, 2018 17:47:03 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
