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From: Tim Visher <tim DOT visher AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:53:29 -0400
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Subject: Re: MANPATH not being cygpathed like PATH is?
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy AT bopp DOT net> wrote:
> On 8/27/2010 1:28 PM, Tim Visher wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I recently switched from setting up environment variables within my
>> bash_profile/bashrc file and instead started setting them on the box
>> I'm on. =C2=A0This works great for PATH. =C2=A0In Windows I set the valu=
es to
>> c:/whateverwhatever and then when my terminal fires up they get
>> cygpathed (I'm assuming) into the right /usr/etcetcetc.
>> Unfortunately, I'm observing no such behavior with the MANPATH. =C2=A0I
>> can't see any difference between it and the PATH value so I was
>> wondering if this was something that cygwin does intentionally.
>
> Cygwin only processes a handful of environment variables automatically
> in the way you expect. =C2=A0They include PATH, HOME, TMP, and TEMP if my
> memory serves correctly. =C2=A0Anything else you need to do for yourself.
>
> The problem is that there is no general way to know what environment
> variables should be processed, so an explicit list must be created and
> maintained. =C2=A0Apparently, a minimal set was chosen which is usually
> sufficient to get you into a Cygwin environment at which point you can
> selectively handle further processing as necessary.
>
> For defining MANPATH within Windows, you could just specify it as Cygwin
> wants it unless you have some non-Cygwin programs which also need to use
> MANPATH.

Thanks, Jeremy.  That was basically the conclusion I'd come to before
you mailed but it was good to have it confirmed.  I've edited all the
relevant PATHS and it all works now.

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