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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 06:59:43PM +0100, Michael Schaap wrote:
>On 7-Feb-2006 3:31, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:40:22PM +0100, Michael Schaap wrote:
>>   
>>> What we basically need to do, is copy the Cygwin environment to the
>>> Windows environment, taking care of path conversion for all the
>>> appropriate variables.
>>>     
>>
>> Maybe start with:
>>
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2005-q4/msg00009.html
>>   
>
>Not really, I think, especially since that code didn't make it into
>Cygwin.  ;-)
>(Also, Corinna suggested in that thread that an application should
>simply convert the necessary variables itself.)
>
>I did notice, though, that a new version, setup_winenv(), externally
>callable as cygwin_internal(CW_SETUP_WINENV), was made available ...
>last Thursday.  (Looks like the code was adapted from the cygstart code,
>actually. :-) )
>So, ideally, that function would be fixed to do POSIX to Windows
>conversion on the necessary variables, and cygstart can then be changed
>to call it, instead of its own setup_win_environ() function.
>
>That would mean that the bug won't be fixed until 1.5.20 is released,
>though ...
>So, I guess I'll just add some path conversion handling to the cygstart
>code itself, for now.  Then if at some point the Cygwin setup_winenv()
>function is fixed in a similar way, and released, I might take it out
>and call cygwin_internal(CW_SETUP_WINENV) instead.

I believe that Brian Ford is looking into modifying the new CW_SETUP_WINENV
code to perform the proper conversion of POSIX style to Windows style.

cgf

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