Yitzchak wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:38:05PM +0100, "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> > What sets LIB in the cygwin environment? It comes verbatim from the >> > DOS environment list but I don't see the importation in any of the >> > layered rc files (but I could've missed it). And is there a way to >> > automatically make cygwin translate these paths from backslash to >> > forward slash when importing? You'd think that would be the default. >> > Is there a way to suppress all importation or all but a list of >> > explicitly named variables? Obviously I can exclude some by >> > redefining them in the bashrc files, but what I'd rather do is >> > exclude all except those I want included, in case some software >> > installs new ones. >> >> LIB isn't used by Cywin, but it is used by Perl. Just unset it before >> the build, it is not needed.
> How is it used by Perl? Or do you just mean the use of MakeMaker passing > it to subdirs? It is a user variable that may be used to define additional search paths. Cygwin applications doesn't need VC++ libraries and therefore doesn't need VC++ LIB path settings. Generally avoid using paths containing spaces on Cygwin. Gerrit -- =^..^= http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html -- 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/
