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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:48:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: bash PATH problem [WAS:gdb 20000610 crashes]
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000627142950.00b1de50@courriel.polymtl.ca>; from andre.bleau@courriel.polymtl.ca on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:58:02PM -0400

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:58:02PM -0400, Andre Bleau wrote:
>The problem I had with is related to a bash PATH problem; I have an older 
>version of gdb in /c/GNAT/BIN while the newest version is in /usr/bin. 
>Seems that bash 2.04 has problems sorting the PATH. If type:
>
>	PATH=/usr/bin
>	export PATH
>	gdb --version
>
>I get:
>
>GNU gdb 5.0
>Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
>welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
>Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
>This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin".
>
>Good. Now, I add /c/GNAT/BIN at the end of the PATH:
>
>	PATH=$PATH:/c/GNAT/BIN
>	export PATH
>	gdb --version
>
>I get:
>
>GNU gdb 4.17.gnat.3.12p
>Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
>welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
>Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
>This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-mingw32".
>
>Seems that executables placed at the end of the PATH can sometimes overide 
>the ones placed at the beginning.

I would bet that there is a case problem here.  I wonder if you have a GDB.exe
in one directory and a gdb.exe in another.  Either that or a 'gdb.exe' and
a 'gdb'.

cgf

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