On 17 January 2008 18:38, Marc/MDPI314 wrote:
> Indeed, I have a similar problem with PATH variable, but I noticed this
> was not caused by spaces,
> but by the fact that Windows PATH is not case sensitive (and may contain
> "program files" or "Program Files") ...
> and it's naturally wrong under cygwin which is case sensitive.
> My errors occured in "configure" scripts (many different applications)
> when configure is searching commands trough PATH variable.
> So I modified the cygwin.bat batch file too force a clean PATH with only
> C:\WINDOWS and C:\WINDOWS\system32, translated into cygwin by
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS and /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32
>
> There's perhaps something to do about that.
We could perhaps add an option to cygpath to fix up the case of paths passed
in. In the absence of that, constructs like:
cygpath -p `cygpath -ws 'C:\program files \'`
can work around the problem by using the short name - thus fixing both spaces
and cases at the same time!
cheers,
DaveK
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