Re: How to handle length limit of PATH environment variable

2018-04-11 Thread Peter Bauer
On 04/05/2018 08:47 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Andrey Repin writes: P.P.S. Partial solution could be a wrapper that reduce PATH length by dropping nonessential/duplicate/Win-specific paths before invoking Cygwin terminal. I have such a wrapper for my own reasons. You don't need one if your login

How to handle length limit of PATH environment variable

2018-04-05 Thread Peter Bauer
hi, i was bitten by the length limit of the PATH variable of 4095 characters (see [1]) and could not find a way around it. This means i have a lot of software packages in different directories and each of them adds itself to the PATH so one can run the executables and have the shared libs

Re: confirm subscribe to cygwin@cygwin.com

2018-04-05 Thread Peter Bauer
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