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 sh

Re: How to handle length limit of PATH environment variable

2018-04-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Achim Gratz! > 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 shell i

Re: How to handle length limit of PATH environment variable

2018-04-05 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 05.04.2018 um 11:19 schrieb Peter Bauer: 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 e

Re: How to handle length limit of PATH environment variable

2018-04-05 Thread Achim Gratz
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 shell is a POSIX shell and you don't use

Re: How to handle length limit of PATH environment variable

2018-04-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, 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 executa

Re: How to handle length limit of PATH environment variable

2018-04-05 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-04-05 04:05, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > On 05.04.2018 11:19, Peter Bauer wrote: >> 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 the

Re: How to handle length limit of PATH environment variable

2018-04-05 Thread Steven Penny
On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 11:19:01, Peter Bauer wrote: 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 th

Re: How to handle length limit of PATH environment variable

2018-04-05 Thread Wolf Geldmacher
On 05.04.2018 11:19, Peter Bauer wrote: 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

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 ava