/etc/profile

[Earnie Boyd]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>
> Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> writes:
>> Unfortunately, at least your windows system dll directory has to be on
>> PATH, or cygwin1.dll will fail to load, so blindly removing ALL windows
>> paths from PATH is wrong.
>
> At that point cygwin1.dll is already loaded and so far I haven't seen anything
> not working due to that change.  But yes, I didn't think of that, so I'm curious
> why it seems to work as nicely as it does.

Right, I remove windows PATHS from my PATH after starting with my
.profile and .bash_profile files.  Besides, the Windows library search
order will search for known DLL in known directories automagicly.

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