2014-10-24 22:16, Christian Franke wrote:
>
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> I don't like the idea either that this simple change breaks existing
>> scenarios. I'm inclined to revert this change.
>>
>> Christian, would you mind terribly to re-add the tweak to postfix
>> to set $PATH?
>>
>
> No problem.
>
> Another possible solution:
> Check for e.g. CYGWIN_DLLPATH environment variable before calling
> SetDllDirectory().
>
> If unset or empty, call SetDllDirectory("X:\path_to_cygwin\bin");
> else if set to ".", do nothing.
> else call SetDllDirectory(CYGWIN_DLLPATH);
>
> The above 'make check' should then work again as 'CYGWIN_DLLPATH=. make
> check'.
I can buy this. Setting 'export CYGWIN_DLLPATH := .' at the beginning of the
Makefile will
do the job.
>
> Possible enhancement: If AddDllDirectory() is available (>= Win8), accept a
> real search path in CYGWIN_DLLPATH.
Also perhaps you can use yet another subitem in the CYGWIN environment variable?
Denis Excoffier.
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