Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.1.20040929102810.02848be0@mail.ros.com.au> X-Sender: errol@mail.ros.com.au (Unverified) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:32:33 +1000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Errol Smith Subject: Re: 'which' command does not expand '~' in path (base-files update needed) In-Reply-To: <2206.10.0.0.8.1096404033.squirrel@10.0.0.8> References: <20040928194018.GR26145@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20040928194740.GT26145@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <2206.10.0.0.8.1096404033.squirrel@10.0.0.8> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes At 06:40 AM 29/09/2004, John Morrison wrote: >Just my two penny worth; I've just pulled, ./configure[d] and make[d] the >GNU which application (it built OOTB). It correctly checks ~/bin. See my original post (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01383.html) >Would it be worth considering using this version of which? What are the >advantages of the Cygwin version? I don't know (but using it would fix the other half of the problem..) - as for advantages it's (probably) simpler, smaller, faster. (btw, I stated the cygwin which.exe was 5k, it's actually about 11k - I was testing the previous build to see if there was any difference which there wasn't). Errol -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/