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Subject: Re: Trying to figure out what is wrong in a colleague's Cygwin setup
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> Ok, well, we managed to resolve this, but I don't understand why what we
> did would fix this.

> In system environment variables in Windows, they added "c:\cygwin64\bin" to
> the end of the PATH. That fixes the problem. That just doesn't make any
> sense to me. In a Cygwin shell, "/usr/bin" is in the PATH, which is the
> same as "c:\cygwin64\bin".

Hello David-
The fact that their uname said MINGW implies they weren't running
"real" Cygwin, but, actually MSYS, which is the slightly modified Cygwin
that is bundled with MINGW to allow it to run bash and other
coreutils.

MSYS has its own location for '/usr/bin', which is probably
c:/msys64/usr/bin or similar. It won't look in c:/cygwin64 by default.

Just a guess, but, hope this helps.
-Mike Gran

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