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Subject: Re: tcsh problems with Cygwin on 64-bit Windows Server 2008
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On Jan  5 11:50, Freddy Jensen wrote:
> 
> I just finished setting up my new 64-bit Windows Server 2008 machine.
> One of the final things was to install cygwin on the machine so I
> could get all the Unix functionality. However, I ran into a problem
> when launching the tcsh shell. I got this error:
> 
> "Badly placed ()'s",  and the shell stopped reading the startup file.
> 
> I have tracked this down to one element of the PATH environment variables,
> namely this one: /cygdrive/c/Program Files ( x86 ) /Microsoft ...."
> 
> What happens is that on 64 bit WinServ-2008 the installers for various
> programs put native 64-bit applications into C:\Program Files\... and
> 32-bit applications into C:\Program Files ( x86 ) \... and the installers
> then add the path into the environment variables for the user.
> 
> When you start a CMD window then the DOS command inherits all the env
> vars, including the PATH variable and then when you launch the tcsh
> it first reads this file:
> 
> /etc/profile.d/lapack.csh
> 
> Inside that file there is a loop that evaluates each
> path element and it finally chokes on
> 
> "/cygdrive/c/Program Files ( x86 ) /Microsoft ...."
> 
> because the parens have special meaning to tcsh unless
> they are escaped. In my opinion it is a bug in cygwin's
> /etc/profile.d/lapack.csh profile script.

This is a problem of the lapack package.  Unfortunately the lapack
package is orphaned and nobody volunteered to be the new package
maintainer so far.


Corinna

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