Luke Kendall wrote:
I see that by default PATH includes some entries like %SystemRoot%/System32
I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the expected C:\WINDOWS value.
This of course causes problems. Would a backslash-style path work correctly if it were properly interpolated into the PATH? Is the % notation special magic for Cygwin to handle DOS-isms?
The case variance may be of interest, in that case.
I think you're falsely attributing your errors to this. The cygwin DLL takes care of all the win32 -> posix translation of the path, and it knows about %SystemRoot%. If this were really the case don't you think tons of things would break? Try "echo $PATH" at your shell prompt and you'll see that the systemroot is correctly substituted.
FWIW, I think environment variables are case-insensitive at the win32 API level. They preserve case but are not sensitive to it, just like ntfs.
Brian
I have a similar question: I had to modify 'profile' to change $PATH=xxxx:$PATH to $PATH=xxxx
How can I simply add $SYSTEMROOT:$SYSTEMROOT/system32 to this? It doesn't work as-is because $SYSTEMROOT = C:\Windows (and this is therefore not interpreted by the path). Rephrasing, what do I use to translate "C:\WINDOWS" to "/cygdrive/c/windows"?
I had to do this because some nasty things in my path were causing problems (e.g. ClearQuest/ClearCase)
TIA, Jason.
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