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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:25:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adam Schlegel <aceschle AT thinkage DOT ca>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
cc: tsfu AT graduate DOT hku DOT hk, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com, jason_fu AT hkmc DOT com DOT hk
Subject: Re: cygwin 1.1.2: undefined reference to `setlinebuf'
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> *IMPERITIVE* /usr/bin must be *first* in the list for PATH.
> 
This may be a stupid question, but why does /usr/bin have to be *first*?
Is it not sufficient to have it somewhere near the front of your path, so
that there is the possibility that certain programs can override the
default ones. For example, I like to maintain a ~/bin directory at the
start of my path so that I can easily stress-test programs that I am
building, without adding them to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. Does this
break something that I haven't noticed yet? Or is it just a bad habit that
I should break as soon as possible?

	Adam Schlegel


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