Hi all, I have some commercial third-party software installed on my computer that installed an older version of GDAL, including utilities, in it's own directory structure. This software also appended it's paths to the system PATH (done by the installer, not by my choice), so I could open any cmd.exe and type "gdalinfo --version" to see "GDAL 1.7.0dev, FWTools 2.4.4, released 2009/09/23".
However, from an OSGeo4W Shell, I'd rather be using the OSGeo4W version of GDAL, but I'm not. Here's what I see from OSGeo4W Shell: C:\>gdalinfo --version GDAL 1.7.0dev, FWTools 2.4.4, released 2009/09/23 C:\>where gdalinfo C:\GWV6\gdal\bin\gdalinfo.exe C:\gnu\OSGeo4W\bin\gdalinfo.exe C:\>c:\gnu\OSGeo4W\bin\gdalinfo.exe --version GDAL 1.9.1, released 2012/05/15 C:\>PATH PATH=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\GWV6\;C:\GWV6\gdal\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin;C:\gnu\OSGeo4W\bin;C:\gnu\OSGeo4W\\apps\msys\bin;C:\gnu\OSGeo4W\\apps\Python27\Scripts Why isn't gdalinfo.exe from OSGeo4W not used in preference over the other one installed in C:\GWV6\gdal\bin? Here it looks like PATH has been modified by OSGeo4W to append two paths. With the MSYS shell distributed with OSGeo4W, things look better: $ which gdalinfo /osgeo4w/bin/gdalinfo.exe $ gdalinfo --version GDAL 1.9.1, released 2012/05/15 $ echo $PATH .:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/mingw/bin:/osgeo4w/bin:/c/Windows/system32:/c/Windows:/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/c/GWV6/:/c/GWV6/gdal/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/Java/jre6/bin:/bin:/osgeo4w/apps/Python27/Scripts Why is the PATH variable set with MSYS inserting some paths at the front, and appending others at the end? Should both shells be inserting the paths at the beginning of the PATH environment? -Mike _______________________________________________ osgeo4w-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeo4w-dev
