[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

[Denis Excoffier]

2014-10-24 22:16, Christian Franke wrote:
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 
>> Sigh.
>> 
>> I don't like the idea either that this simple change breaks existing
>> scenarios.  I'm inclined to revert this change.
>> 
>> Christian, would you mind terribly to re-add the tweak to postfix
>> to set $PATH?
>> 
> 
> No problem.
> 
> Another possible solution:
> Check for e.g. CYGWIN_DLLPATH environment variable before calling SetDllDirectory().
> 
> If unset or empty, call SetDllDirectory("X:\path_to_cygwin\bin");
> else if set to ".", do nothing.
> else call SetDllDirectory(CYGWIN_DLLPATH);
> 
> The above 'make check' should then work again as 'CYGWIN_DLLPATH=. make check'.
I can buy this. Setting 'export CYGWIN_DLLPATH := .' at the beginning of the Makefile will
do the job.

> 
> Possible enhancement: If AddDllDirectory() is available (>= Win8), accept a real search path in CYGWIN_DLLPATH.
Also perhaps you can use yet another subitem in the CYGWIN environment variable?

Denis Excoffier.
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