Still getting the errors in spite of settings you suggest. Is there another approach besides removing them?
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Browse All TopicsWe installed some new packages on cygwin and since then we are encountering the below problem when exporting environment variables:
.bashrc has below line(s):
JAVA_HOME=xyz\123
export JAVA_HOME
upon export we receve below error:
....line 2: export 'JAVA_HOME' : not a valid identifier
For some reason the latest install screwed us. We use to run in unix mode and could load the environment variables without this error. We tried uninstalling the latest package but this has not resolved the problem.
I would prefer not to have to reinstall cygwin to resolve this. Is there a graceful way to get back on track?
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by: amit_gPosted on 2007-06-27 at 13:57:05ID: 19376192
Try
dos2unix .bashrc
and then see if that resolves it. Also
JAVA_HOME=xyz\123
should rather be
JAVA_HOME="xyz\123"
although it should not give you the error you mentioned.