Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/01/12/13:23:32
Could you be confusing setting PATH with setting CYGWIN? A subsequent
message to this email list mentions that CYGWIN must be set before
cygwin1.dll is loaded.
---Vladimir
Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://www.leonora.org/~vladimir
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"EB" == Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
EB> Soren Andersen wrote:
>>
>> On 12 Jan 2001, an entity purporting to be Schaible, Joerg
>> [Schaible, Joerg <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT com>] wrote [regarding RE:
>> "The PATH problem"]
>>
>> > Hi Soren,
>> >
>> > >Cygwin doesn't allow modification or unset on the PATH variable
>> > >after login, so it has to be set right from 'Doze before bash
>> > >gets fired up, no?
>> >
>> > Who has told you that? This is simply not true, but it depends on
>> > the shell you're using.
>>
>> I am *quite* sure I just read it in documentation, but I am sorry,
>> I have been multitasking at least a half-dozen projects for days
>> now, and I do not have a pointer to cite to the location of this
>> statement.
>>
>> I exhaustively tried to alter my PATH inside bash (using statements
>> identical to what you cited) before I found the documentary
>> confirmation that it doesn't work.
>>
>> "YMMV".
>>
EB> YMMV??? Joerg is correct. This is an impartial nature of the
EB> shell, all shells, including command.com and cmd.exe. I don't
EB> think that your systems are a special case, but YMMV.
EB> Cheers, Earnie.
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