GETENV returning empty strings, Version 9.1

[Dan_S_]

The GETENV function as used below is returning empty strings after recompiling. I am using version 9.1. Here's the code:

use ifport
character*256 libstr
call getenv('LIB',libstr)
write(6,'(a,a)') 'lib=',trim(libstr)
end

With a previously compiled/linked version (9.0), I got this as output:

LIB=C:Program FilesIntelCompilerFortran9.1Ia32Lib; (etc) 

I have found that calling the intrinsic routine "GET_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE" will work, but I
would like to know what is causing the problem with GETENV, in case it affects other
code I have that uses the portability library.

Any ideas?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Works for me with 9.1.039. How many characters is the definition of your LIB variable? What happens if you increase the size of the character variable?

[Dan_S_]

I tried that, but that didn't seem to be the problem.

After some experimenting, I've found the problem has something to do with environment strings that contain references to other strings. That is, GETENV will return most of my environment strings, but those strings like LIB which contain indirect references, like "%XPRESSDIR%lib;" are returned empty. In this case, I have another environment string, XPRESSDIR, that has the value "c:xpressmp" and it doesn't seem to be processed by GETENV when I asked for "LIB".

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I don't see that behavior with 9.1.039 - such strings are properly expanded. I see no difference between GETENV and GET_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE in this regard.