Re: [Mingw-users] Environment Variables translated to Upper Case Equivalents

[Roger M. <ro...@zu...>]

Hello Earnie,

thanks for the suggestion. The variable names will likely change for
each launch of the shell (each one runs a regression test), but there's
a seed of an idea if I dynamically generate a profile file for each run.

Best Regards,


Roger

On 25/02/2015 22:57, Earnie wrote:
>> From: Roger Mitchell
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to use the bash shell supplied with MinGW/MSYS, but I'm
> finding that
>> often environment variables (e.g. red_something) are translated to 
>> their
> upper
>> case equivalent (i.e. RED_SOMETHING). We have binary executables that 
>> are called from the shell that require the variables to be defined in 
>> lower
> case (a
>> hangover from UNIX days).
>>
>> I notice that CYGWIN allows the user to set a flag "nouppercase_env" 
>> for
> the
>> CYGWIN to control this behaviour. Is there an equivalent flag that can 
>> be
> used
>> with MinGW/MSYS?
>>
> You could create a script to create the lower case version and remove the
> upper case version.  Then source that script from your ~/.profile file.
>
> --
> Earnie
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