Re: make 3.80: variables from environment

[Angel Tsankov]

> > From: "Angel Tsankov" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:39:02 +0200
> >
> > > Please show a complete (but preferably short) test case that
> > > exhibits
> > > this problem.
> > >
> > >> Is this behavious expected?
> > >
> > > No, I don't think so.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I hope the attachment is not corrupted.
>
> I tried your test case, and it worked for me, both with Make 3.80
> and
> the beta3 pretest of Make 3.81.  Both messages are displayed:
>
>    Lower variables are accessible from a makefile.
>    Uppercase variables are accessible from a makefile.
>
> This is on Windows XP SP2.
>
> What is your Windows version?  It's possible that your Windows shell
> upcases environment variables (COMMAND.COM used to do that).
Im not sure I get the sense of your last sentence:(

My system is the same - Windows XP SP2 (with auto updates turned on).
I even performed the tests after a reboot and I got the same results -
only the second message is displayed.
Btw, I'm using a cygwin (www.cygwin.com) build of make. This is the
result of executing "make --version":
GNU Make 3.80
Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I then ran the test agains 3.81beta3 and it DID displayed all two 
messages as expected.
One more question: Is version 3.81 expected to be released soon? If 
so, when?