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Subject: RE: The incredible shrinking PATH
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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:39:41 +0100
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Mark Sheppard wrote on Friday, November 07, 2003 3:33 PM:
> 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.

You might search for a limit in environment vars on this list. We had some threads about it lately including the reason.

Regards,
Jörg

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