X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:34:25 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [Parallels 3.0, MacOS 10.4.9] Cygwin install probs and how do I subscribe Message-ID: <20070726143425.GD31814@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <46A79AE5.3020404@noaa.gov> <46A7EC0B.4030401@aol.com> <46A7EDAD.6080306@noaa.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:23:03PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > David L Goldsmith wrote: >> Tim Prince wrote: >>> make is available on the cygwin setup selection window, as are other >>> development packages you would need. >>> Generally speaking, putting cygwin stuff in your Windows environment >>> should be avoided. >> I don't understand this comment at all: isn't cygwin precisely for Windows >> environs? Besides, it's not my choice to use cygwin - I need to use ATLAS >> and the install instructions I found for that say first install cygwin. If >> anyone knows a better way to install ATLAS, please share. > Right click on My Computer, select Properties, Advanced then Environment > Variables. There are two areas: User variables and System variables. Both > can have a PATH environment variable. They are combined. The difference is > that System variables are known to services which start before you log in > (of course if you change these you need to reboot to rebuild the services > environment which is built at boot time). I add C:\Cygwin\bin to my System > variables personally. Yep. I've been doing that for ten years now. If there was a problem with doing that, you'd think I w -- 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/