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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:00:42 -0400
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On 06/30/2015 02:27 PM, John Norris wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running cygwin 1.7.x on Windows 2008. I realise this may be out of date
> but this is what we are using.
> I have noticed that the path variable for our build user is dependent on
> where "cmd /C" is run from.
> Please see below - I have cut back the PATH so that it does not overwhelm.
> Notice the extra C; before the non cygwin entries. And when run from e
> drive, the C; remains but the c: becomes e:. And this is the problem - the
> path when run from c is messy but works. The path when run from e (which is
> where we do run from) does not work.
>
> Can anyone explain this. I guess one way round this is to explicitly call
> the necessary programs without relying on PATH. But interested why this
> happens.

I think we need to see your path in Windows and your cygcheck output.
Start cmd.exe and send the results of "PATH".


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Larry

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