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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:36:46 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bug: 1.5.18: 'This application has failed to start because  cygwin1.dll  was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this  problem'
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On Oct 10 21:29, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Glen A Coakley wrote:
> I believe this may be an instance of the error I reported in
> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00552.html>.  Basically, the
> PATH conversion code stops whenever it encounters an invalid element in
> the PATH.  In my case it was due to strict case checking, but it seems to
> be a more general problem.  Basically, the Cygwin path conversion code
> stops when it encounters a non-existent directory, and only returns the
> part of the path it's converted so far.  Since in your case the invalid
> directory comes first, you get an empty PATH.
> 
> A patch to turn off this behavior altogether is reasonably simple, but I'm
> not sure it'll be accepted.  The main question is whether this behavior is
> desired. Corinna or Chris, care to comment?

This should be solved in current CVS (the general problem with non-existant
directories, not the case_check stuff).


Corinna

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