Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:27:51 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Environment var PATH broken in 1.3.9 - spaces NG
Message-ID:	<20020124212751.GF4621@redhat.com>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020124130457 DOT 02716e58 AT cic-mail DOT lanl DOT gov> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020124135910 DOT 02743bd8 AT cic-mail DOT lanl DOT gov>
Mime-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<5.1.0.14.2.20020124135910.02743bd8@cic-mail.lanl.gov>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.3.23.1i

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:16:07PM -0700, Richard Kandarian wrote:
>The path to MSVC is set in the registry (i.e. Control panel > system > 
>advanced > environment (or however you get there)). To be even more precise 
>tcsh inherits the environment from bash which inherits it from cmd.exe 
>which gets it from the registry somehow.
>
>Sorry I didn't mention that.
>
>If I execute 'tcsh -l' at a cmd.exe prompt the behavior is the same. (I 
>didn't know I could do that! I thought I needed bash to read /etc/profile 
>to get everything setup.)

It still sounds like you have something like a "set path=($PATH)" somewhere.

For the record, there were very few changes made between 1.3.8 and 1.3.9
and none of the changes had anything to do with environment handlin.

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -