At 03:14 PM 11/26/2004, you wrote: >Brian Dessent wrote: >>Luke Kendall wrote: >> >>>I see that by default PATH includes some entries like >>>%SystemRoot%/System32 >>> >>>I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the >>>expected C:\WINDOWS value. >>> >>>This of course causes problems. Would a backslash-style path work >>>correctly if it were properly interpolated into the PATH? Is the % >>>notation special magic for Cygwin to handle DOS-isms? >>> >>>The case variance may be of interest, in that case. >> >>I think you're falsely attributing your errors to this. The cygwin DLL >>takes care of all the win32 -> posix translation of the path, and it >>knows about %SystemRoot%. If this were really the case don't you think >>tons of things would break? Try "echo $PATH" at your shell prompt and >>you'll see that the systemroot is correctly substituted. >>FWIW, I think environment variables are case-insensitive at the win32 >>API level. They preserve case but are not sensitive to it, just like >>ntfs. >>Brian > >I have a similar question: I had to modify 'profile' to change > $PATH=xxxx:$PATH >to > $PATH=xxxx > >How can I simply add $SYSTEMROOT:$SYSTEMROOT/system32 to this? It doesn't work >as-is because $SYSTEMROOT = C:\Windows (and this is therefore not interpreted >by the path). Rephrasing, what do I use to translate "C:\WINDOWS" to >"/cygdrive/c/windows"? > >I had to do this because some nasty things in my path were causing problems >(e.g. ClearQuest/ClearCase)
I'll state one obvious option - just add "/cygdrive/c/windows", etc. in your 'profile'. If you want Cygwin to do the translation for you, change the path in 'cygwin.bat' (or whatever your startup link is) instead. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
