X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <183c528b0712071441k4f27cea9lebf6234f592f2eb0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: RE: Wish Setup would accept my Perl Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:41:10 -0000 Message-ID: <0b1701c83bf3$1baa81b0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: 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 11 December 2007 12:21, Michael Kairys wrote: > To accomplish this I have put cygwin\bin on my Windows path. What is your > opinion on that, please? A wholly excellent idea IMO :) You can run into the occasional confusion about PATH ordering where there are utilities of the same name. This generally happens with 'find.exe' and 'link.exe'. Since the cmd.exe version of find is completely useless when compared to grep, and since I only invoke link.exe from devstudio, I put the cygwin bin dir at the start of my path and let it override windows tools. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/