Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: why must cygwin be first in path? Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:49:14 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 To: From: "Steven Schram" Several people have suggested that it might be related to having network devices in the PATH. Good suggestion, but it is not the case. I don't have any network devices in PATH. Steve At 11:46 AM 2/3/00 , you wrote: >The only way I have found to get GNU Make to execute properly from the NT >Command Shell is to put the cygwin directory first in the PATH variable. >Otherwise, 'make.exe' has that strange delay (about 3 seconds) I mentioned a >while back. Does this give anyone a clue as to why there is a delay at all? > >As a refresher, the delay only occurs if it has been at least 10 seconds >since the last delay commenced. > >Steve > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com