On Jun 18 05:30, Mike Mueller wrote: > Obviously PATH is special to cygwin, because it has to transform the > Windows representation into a Unix-like representation. I agree with > you that it *should* be pulled in like any other variable, but I'm not > familiar with cygwin's under-the-hood workings. This problem has me > completely at a loss...
As I said, PATH is fetched with GetEnvironmentStrings from the env like every other environment var, if the Cygwin app has been started by a native parent. It's just massaged into a POSIX path afterwards. There's no magic involved like, say, some hidden mechanism to get the environment from the grandparent or something. Try this: bash-3.2$ echo $PATH /home/corinna/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/SFU/common/ $ cmd Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. c:\cygwin\home\corinna>echo %path% C:\cygwin-1.5\mnt\c\cygwin\home\corinna\bin;C:\cygwin-1.5\bin;C:\cygwin-1.5\usr\local\bin;C:\cygwin-1.5\bin;C:\cygwin-1.5\bin;C:\cygwin-1.5\usr\X11R6\bin;c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\windows\System32\Wbem;C:\cygwin-1.5\mnt\c\SFU\common\ c:\cygwin\home\corinna>set path=%path%;C:\ c:\cygwin\home\corinna>echo %path% c:\cygwin\home\corinna\bin;C:\cygwin-1.5\bin;C:\cygwin-1.5\usr\local\bin;C:\cygw in-1.5\bin;C:\cygwin-1.5\bin;C:\cygwin-1.5\usr\X11R6\bin;c:\WINDOWS\system32;c:\ WINDOWS;c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;c:\SFU\common\;C:\ c:\cygwin\home\corinna>bash bash-3.2$ echo $PATH /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/corinna/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/SFU/common/:/cygdrive/c Well, works for me, obviously. 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/
