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Date:	Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:22:45 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: gdb and Windows 2000
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:20:30AM -0700, Michael Ubell wrote:
>Aha!
>
>In trying to download and install the developers' version I managed to srew
>things up enough to find the problem.  I have:
>
>export PATH="$msvs\VC98\Bin":"$msvs\Common\MSDev98\Bin":"c:\Program Files\TCL\bin":$PATH
>
>in my .bashrc file.  Having MSVC in the path before /usr/bin appears to be
>a big no-no.

!!! Having MS-DOS paths in your PATH is also a big no-no.  There is no
way that will work correctly.  You're using a colon as both a separator
and a disk introducer.

Use posix paths just like you do on UNIX.

cgf

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