Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <56C9B4CE640B7044AAF74431F9C963E101075590@tankard.brighton.climax.co.uk>
From: Mark Sheppard <msheppard AT climax DOT co DOT uk>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: The incredible shrinking PATH
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:32:52 -0000 
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"

Hi,

We're getting a problem where a native windows console program invoked from
an interactive Cygwin bash shell seems to be getting a truncated PATH
environment variable.  The windows program in question is Boost Jam and for
some people it can't find a compiler that's definitely in a directory in
their path.  If they re-arrange the directories in their path to make the
relevant one appear early on things start working.  And the same command
invoked from cmd works without having to re-arrange the path.

Has anyone come across anything like this before?  I had a quick search of
the archives but nothing turned up.

Mark.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/