On 2018-02-27 07:12, Numien wrote: > 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)
WJFFM: $ uname -srvmo CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:16 x86_64 Cygwin $ test=`echo "x86_64-pc-cygwin" | sed 's/-[^-]*$//'`; echo $test x86_64-pc > This also happens in scripts (where I originally encountered the > problem), not just on the command line. > Directly outputting it (echo `echo "x86_64-pc-cygwin" | sed > 's/-[^-]*$//'`) works fine, it seems to be specifically related to > setting a variable. > Any suggestions? Incompatible keyboard or console locale, terminal, .inputrc, or shell settings; shell variable test set with incompatible attributes in profile; AV - disable/bypass? $ locale LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_CA.UTF-8 $ echo $TERM xterm-256color $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ declare -p INPUTRC -bash: declare: INPUTRC: not found $ bind -lpsvX ... lots of output $ set ... lots of output $ declare -p test declare -- test="x86_64-pc" -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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
