Re: Help Understanding Path Issue

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, mwoehlke wrote:

> While CC'ing me for some reason(?), Igor Peshansky wrote:
> (And was there a reason for that, or did you just hit 'reply all' by
> accident/reflex/because the hippo made me?)

I always hit "Reply-All", and you didn't have Reply-To: set.

> > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> > > Scott Purcell wrote:
> > > > I have "CLASSPATHS" and "PATHS" and some "HOME" directories set up.
> > > > Eg: ANT_HOME value=C:/ant/bin
> > > I assume you meant "CLASSPATH" and "PATH".
> >
> > I think he meant "CLASSPATH"s and "PATH"s. :-)
>
> Um... actually, I was assuming he only had one $PATH. If he has more,
> how does bash tell them apart? ;-)

Well, okay, "*CLASSPATH"s and "*PATH"s...

> > Actually, the list of variables automatically translated by Cygwin was
> > posted here at some point (it may even be in the FAQ).  At the very
> > least it's PATH, HOME, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but there may be others.
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Since when does Windows have any clue what to do with
> *that*? (Or it it folded into PATH?)

Hmm...  [Digs into the sources]...  Yep, here's the full list as of today:
PATH, HOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH (yes!), TMPDIR, TMP, TEMP.  And no,
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not folded into PATH.  And don't ask me why it gets
converted...
	Igor
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