From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP port of WHICH
Date: 25 Aug 2000 09:59:36 GMT
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David <nobody AT bogus DOT com> wrote:
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote in message
> news:8o34n7$cvu$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE...
[...]
>> Changing the PATH generally won't help, in that respect. No matter how
>> you set it, you'll almost invariably have the wrong version of some
>> program found first.
[...]
> Thats exactly what I do.  If I get unexplained behavior during a make, I try
> to rearrange my path using batch files.  

Not a very good method, IMHO. It's easier to use absolute paths to the
utilities inside the Makefile. Manually Fiddling with the contents of
$PATH creates more problems than it solves. PATH is supposed to be
relatively static. It can be useful to modify it for setup-type batch
files, but otherwise, PATH is part of that 'running system' you should
'never change', as the saying goes.



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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.