On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:40:51PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote: [...]
> If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you > will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid > running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. It doesn't add, actually - it replaces it. A few weeks ago I got fed up with Cygwin not being able to find my Windows executables and wrote a script to add all directories with *.exe files to the $PATH. (It runs overnight with cron.) This leads to a strange effect: the resulting $PATH is so long (over 2800 chars) that, although it successfully locates many Windows executables, attempts to run them fail with an error message: % dot -h /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Graphviz/bin/dot: Message too long. Workaround: % env - "`which dot`" -h Other than that it works well. (This is Cygwin 1.5.) -- Reinier Post TU Eindhoven -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
