[cygwin-g95] Interfere with the original binary files

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Mon Feb 23 02:38:00 GMT 2004


On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Alvyn Liang wrote:
>
> > I don't know if this is proper to place here. alright
> > the installation of g95 can make your former binary hided...
> > in
> >
> > $ cygcheck -srv
> >
> > I found these two message:
> >
> > Warning: d:\cygwin\tmp\g95\bin\cpp.exe hides d:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
> > Warning: d:\cygwin\tmp\g95\bin\gcc.exe hides d:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
> >
> > Just a note for ppl who stuck here, maybe someone will just like me
> > searching for a solution by searching engines
> >
> > the results just like the following
> >
> > $ gcc test1.c
> > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
> >
> > I think the cygwin will always remember the last time it execute some file,
> > so that unless you restart the console it will continue to find the old
> > successful one.
> >
> > Alvyn
>
> Cygwin does no such thing.

... but some shells may, though I doubt it's the case here.  While you're
in the bash man page, read about the 'hash' builtin.
HTH,
	Igor

> Read up on the PATH environment variable:
>
> PAGER='less +1017' man bash
>
> You can change the PATH by using "export PATH=<somevalue>".  You (or some
> script) probably prepended "/tmp/g95/bin" to your PATH.  Starting a new
> shell sets PATH to its default value (not that simple, but close enough),
> which doesn't contain that directory.
>
> FWIW, if you'd attached the output of "cygcheck -svr" to your message,
> instead of simply quoting choice bits from it, it would have helped
> confirm the above.
>         Igor

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