On Jan 18 14:51, Weiqi Gao wrote: > After updating to the latest Cygwin release, I'm having problems with > MSVC, which I use everyday. The problem seems to be that the TEMP > environment variable is now translated to UNIX format > (/cygdrive/C/DOCUME~1/gao_w/LOCALS~1/Temp) instead of Windows format > (C:\DOCUME~1\gao_w\LOCALS~1\Temp). And Visual Studio only understands > the Windows format. > > This started to happen after I updated to the latest Cygwin release > and rebooted today. > > So my questions for today are: > Is the new cygwin release the reason for the changed behavior?
The TEMP handling hasn't been changed for a long time. Also, if I run tcsh and then start a cmd shell, the handling of TEMP looks correct to me: tcsh$ echo $TEMP /home/corinna/tmp tcsh$ cmd Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\home\corinna>echo %TEMP% echo %TEMP% C:\home\corinna\tmp Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
