On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:23:03PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > David L Goldsmith wrote: >> Tim Prince wrote: >>> make is available on the cygwin setup selection window, as are other >>> development packages you would need. >>> Generally speaking, putting cygwin stuff in your Windows environment >>> should be avoided. >> I don't understand this comment at all: isn't cygwin precisely for Windows >> environs? Besides, it's not my choice to use cygwin - I need to use ATLAS >> and the install instructions I found for that say first install cygwin. If >> anyone knows a better way to install ATLAS, please share. > Right click on My Computer, select Properties, Advanced then Environment > Variables. There are two areas: User variables and System variables. Both > can have a PATH environment variable. They are combined. The difference is > that System variables are known to services which start before you log in > (of course if you change these you need to reboot to rebuild the services > environment which is built at boot time). I add C:\Cygwin\bin to my System > variables personally.
Yep. I've been doing that for ten years now. If there was a problem with doing that, you'd think I w -- 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/
