Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:27:51 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Environment var PATH broken in 1.3.9 - spaces NG Message-ID: <20020124212751.GF4621@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020124130457 DOT 02716e58 AT cic-mail DOT lanl DOT gov> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020124135910 DOT 02743bd8 AT cic-mail DOT lanl DOT gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020124135910.02743bd8@cic-mail.lanl.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:16:07PM -0700, Richard Kandarian wrote: >The path to MSVC is set in the registry (i.e. Control panel > system > >advanced > environment (or however you get there)). To be even more precise >tcsh inherits the environment from bash which inherits it from cmd.exe >which gets it from the registry somehow. > >Sorry I didn't mention that. > >If I execute 'tcsh -l' at a cmd.exe prompt the behavior is the same. (I >didn't know I could do that! I thought I needed bash to read /etc/profile >to get everything setup.) It still sounds like you have something like a "set path=($PATH)" somewhere. For the record, there were very few changes made between 1.3.8 and 1.3.9 and none of the changes had anything to do with environment handlin. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/