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Re: Help Understanding Path Issue
- From: One Angry User <angry at lusers dot org>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:10:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Help Understanding Path Issue
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- Reply-to: Blaaab Babble Boogle Bop <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
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On a sunny Friday morning, the 30th day of June, 2006, Corinna Vinschen's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
> On Jun 29 18:57, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> > > 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...
>
> A quick grep over the ChangeLogs is sometimes very helpful.
Quick grep? What's that? I only have GNU grep installed on my machine.
Is Quick grep something I should try to compile from source myself? Does
it do a better job than GNU grep? Is it compatible? What are the options
I should use?
OAU