From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 27 16:26:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE80837B401 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail4.bluewin.ch (mail4.bluewin.ch [195.186.4.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B31F43FAF for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raphael@computer-rental.ch) Received: from computer-rental.ch (62.202.30.51) by mail4.bluewin.ch (Bluewin AG 6.7.016) id 3E675E4D0056975C for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:26:51 +0000 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 01:26:43 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Raphael Marmier To: freebsd-questions Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: can't set a variable with a dash in its name!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:26:54 -0000 On a freshly installed 4.8, while trying to install the mail/imp3 port, I realised that it was impossible to define the following variable, either in tcsh or sh: re# setenv WITH_COURIER-IMAP setenv: Syntax Error. re# setenv WITH_COURIERIMAP re# re# sh # export WITH_COURIER-IMAP export: WITH_COURIER-IMAP: bad variable name # export WITH_COURIERIMAP # I just tried on 4.6.2 and it works, as well as MacOSX. The only customisation this system has received is CPUTYPE=p4 in make.conf, and rebuilt kernel and world after this. Everything has been normal since then. idea anyone? Raphael