Bash v4.0 does not respect $PATH

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of 
> Neil.Mowbray@calgacus.com
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:38
> To: 'Csaba Raduly'; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Bash v4.0 does not respect $PATH
> 
> As requested the output from perl -e "print $^X;"
> 
> Bash 3 => c:\opt\perl\bin\perl.exe
> 
> Bash 4 => /usr/bin/perl
> 

In bash4 can I see, every thing else is a bit noisy for me.

$ set && echo && alias && echo && uname -a


> As you would expect the program that is actually running.
> But again Bash 4 is incorrectly getting /usr/bin/perl rather 
> than /opt/perl/bin/perl
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Csaba Raduly [mailto:rcsaba@gmail.com]
> Sent: 30 December 2009 08:52
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com; Neil.Mowbray@calgacus.com
> Subject: Re: Bash v4.0 does not respect $PATH
> 
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:21 PM,  Neil Mowbray wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I need associative arrays so I got the bash 4.0 source, compiled it 
> > under cygwin and installed it in /usr/local/bin.
> >
> > I have ActiveState perl installed in /opt/perl which preceeds 
> > /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin on my path.  Using bash 4.0, 
> 'which' says 
> > I should get ActiveState perl, but actual execution gives 
> cygwin perl 
> > in /bin
> 
> Are you sure PATH is the same in bash 3 and 4? You only 
> showed the PATH from bash 4.
> Just out of curiosity, what does
> 
> perl -e 'print $^X'
> 
> print in those two situations? Also, try running
> 
> for i in $(echo $PATH | sed -r -e "s/:/ /g"); do ls -l $i/perl; done
> 
> in both shells.
> 

Thanks

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