problems with tcsh, MACHTYPE on Raspberry Pi 3

[Mark Millard]

On 2016-Dec-3, at 5:53 PM, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I gave FreebSD 12 a try on my Raspberry Pi 3 but encountered some
> strange things.
> 
> I use this image:
> 
> FreeBSD-aarch64-12.0-GENERIC-UP-308109M.img.gz
> 
> It all works until I start to compile programs. The main source of the
> problem is that
> 
> echo $MACHTYPE
> unknown
> 
> Of course, everything relying on this information fails afterwards.
> 
> MACHTYPE seems to be hard-coded in tcsh. Setting it in the current
> shell resets it in a sub-shell.
> 
> The miracle started when I tried to work with a variable I named
> MachType.
> 
> [erich at X220]~ > setenv MachTYpe "local machine type"
> [erich at X220]~ > echo $MachType

"Y" vs. "y" on the two lines above?

> [erich at X220]~ > setenv Susie Otto
> [erich at X220]~ > echo $Susie
> Otto
> [erich at X220]~ > 
> 
> When I then use MachType inside a script on the Raspberry, it all
> works.
> 
> Is this really expected behaviour?
> 
> Erich


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Mark Millard
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