Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/04/30/15:50:17
Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Dmitry Golovaty wrote:
>
>
>> Thanks, Igor.
>>
>>
>>> PATH is usually processed left-to-right. As an alternative to what
>>> Brian suggested, simply prepending C:\cygwin\bin to the PATH should
>>> work.
>>>
>> C:\cygwin\bin has been in the PATH all the time; the problem seems to
>> have been that the PATH statement contained a MATLAB directory somewhere
>> in the middle which caused some conflict between the libraries that
>> loaded.
>>
>
> Notice, I said "prepend", which means "put in the front". In your case,
> it was in the end of the path, and was overridden by the preceding MATLAB
> directory.
>
I did notice that you said "prepend" ... the same error occurred
independent of whether the statement was at the beginning or at the end
of the PATH.
>
>>> FWIW, the above is already done in the standard shell startup scripts,
>>> so unless you're using custom .*rc scripts, you probably attempted to
>>> invoke ImageMagick from a Windows command prompt. One word of warning
>>> for working in that mode: some of the programs in /bin are symbolic
>>> links or scripts that Windows does not understand. You're better off
>>> invoking Cygwin programs from a Cygwin shell, unless you're sure they
>>> are .exe files.
>>>
>> I am using standard rc scripts and was invoking ImageMagick from xterm
>> ... I have added a path-modifying statement suggested by Brian to
>> .profile that removed the win32 Matlab directory from the PATH and this
>> solved the problem.
>>
>
> This is weird. The /etc/profile that comes with the base-files package
> prepends /usr/bin to the PATH already. My only guess is that you started
> the xterm with bash as a non-login shell. Try running "xterm -e bash -l"
> instead.
>
Tried it - seems to make no difference ...
Thanks again,
Dmitry
> HTH,
> Igor
>
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