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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20041126151726.03be1538@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:19:24 -0500 To: Jason Curl , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: PATH and SystemRoot oddity In-Reply-To: References: <20041126064717.0A1A4837CA@pessard.research.canon.com.au> <41A6D980.41FE183F@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:14 PM 11/26/2004, you wrote: >Brian Dessent wrote: >>Luke Kendall wrote: >> >>>I see that by default PATH includes some entries like >>>%SystemRoot%/System32 >>> >>>I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the >>>expected C:\WINDOWS value. >>> >>>This of course causes problems. Would a backslash-style path work >>>correctly if it were properly interpolated into the PATH? Is the % >>>notation special magic for Cygwin to handle DOS-isms? >>> >>>The case variance may be of interest, in that case. >> >>I think you're falsely attributing your errors to this. The cygwin DLL >>takes care of all the win32 -> posix translation of the path, and it >>knows about %SystemRoot%. If this were really the case don't you think >>tons of things would break? Try "echo $PATH" at your shell prompt and >>you'll see that the systemroot is correctly substituted. >>FWIW, I think environment variables are case-insensitive at the win32 >>API level. They preserve case but are not sensitive to it, just like >>ntfs. >>Brian > >I have a similar question: I had to modify 'profile' to change > $PATH=xxxx:$PATH >to > $PATH=xxxx > >How can I simply add $SYSTEMROOT:$SYSTEMROOT/system32 to this? It doesn't work as-is because $SYSTEMROOT = C:\Windows (and this is therefore not interpreted by the path). Rephrasing, what do I use to translate "C:\WINDOWS" to "/cygdrive/c/windows"? > >I had to do this because some nasty things in my path were causing problems (e.g. ClearQuest/ClearCase) I'll state one obvious option - just add "/cygdrive/c/windows", etc. in your 'profile'. If you want Cygwin to do the translation for you, change the path in 'cygwin.bat' (or whatever your startup link is) instead. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/