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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Dmitry Golovaty wrote:

> Thanks, Igor.
>
> > PATH is usually processed left-to-right.  As an alternative to what
> > Brian suggested, simply prepending C:\cygwin\bin to the PATH should
> > work.
>
> C:\cygwin\bin has been in the PATH all the time; the problem seems to
> have been that the PATH statement contained a MATLAB directory somewhere
> in the middle which caused some conflict between the libraries that
> loaded.

Notice, I said "prepend", which means "put in the front".  In your case,
it was in the end of the path, and was overridden by the preceding MATLAB
directory.

> > FWIW, the above is already done in the standard shell startup scripts,
> > so unless you're using custom .*rc scripts, you probably attempted to
> > invoke ImageMagick from a Windows command prompt.  One word of warning
> > for working in that mode: some of the programs in /bin are symbolic
> > links or scripts that Windows does not understand.  You're better off
> > invoking Cygwin programs from a Cygwin shell, unless you're sure they
> > are .exe files.
>
> I am using standard rc scripts and was invoking ImageMagick from xterm
> ... I have added a path-modifying statement suggested by Brian to
> .profile that removed the win32 Matlab directory from the PATH and this
> solved the problem.

This is weird.  The /etc/profile that comes with the base-files package
prepends /usr/bin to the PATH already.  My only guess is that you started
the xterm with bash as a non-login shell.  Try running "xterm -e bash -l"
instead.

HTH,
	Igor
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