Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-11-24 00:24, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 19.11.2020 um 16:57 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2020-11-17 16:41, tealhill via Cygwin wrote: On 2020-11-17 4:23 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 17.11.2020 um 20:54 schrieb tealhill via Cygwin:  >> Cygwin's /etc/profile sets the PATH. Could /etc/profile

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-24 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin
On 24/11/2020 14:52, Bill Stewart wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:25 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>> and please note that SysNative appears nowhere! >> That's because Sysnative is not a known folder. It is rather unknown >> just because it is virtual :) >> And that is the problem I tried to

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-24 Thread Bill Stewart
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:25 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: > > and please note that SysNative appears nowhere! > > That's because Sysnative is not a known folder. It is rather unknown > just because it is virtual :) > And that is the problem I tried to address. In cygwin32, you can `cd >

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 19.11.2020 um 16:57 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2020-11-17 16:41, tealhill via Cygwin wrote: On 2020-11-17 4:23 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 17.11.2020 um 20:54 schrieb tealhill via Cygwin:  >> Cygwin's /etc/profile sets the PATH. Could /etc/profile please also add

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/17 15:41, tealhill via Cygwin wrote: ### Summary Why should Cygwin add Sysnative to $PATH? As a workaround for Microsoft's failure to add Sysnative to %PATH%. ### Full explanation Cygwin imports the Windows %PATH% variable at startup. It would be ideal if Microsoft would add

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-19 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-11-17 16:41, tealhill via Cygwin wrote: On 2020-11-17 4:23 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 17.11.2020 um 20:54 schrieb tealhill via Cygwin: >> Cygwin's /etc/profile sets the PATH. Could /etc/profile please also add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the end of the PATH? > It doesn't

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, tealhill! > On 2020-11-17 4:23 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Am 17.11.2020 um 20:54 schrieb tealhill via Cygwin: >>> >>> Cygwin's /etc/profile sets the PATH. >>> >>> Could /etc/profile please also add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to >>> the end of the PATH? >> >> It doesn't add any

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-18 Thread Achim Gratz
tealhill via Cygwin writes: > ### Summary > > Why should Cygwin add Sysnative to $PATH? As a workaround for > Microsoft's failure to add Sysnative to %PATH%. With my maintainer hat for base-files on, I reject this proposal. As already noted, there is no precedent for Cygwin doing things like

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-18 Thread Bill Stewart
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 4:42 PM tealhill via Cygwin wrote: > Therefore, I am suggesting that Cygwin work around Microsoft's omission. > My suggested workaround is for Cygwin to add Sysnative to its own > $PATH, automatically. I don't think that should be a default behavior in cygwin and is

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-17 Thread tealhill via Cygwin
On 2020-11-17 4:23 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 17.11.2020 um 20:54 schrieb tealhill via Cygwin: >> Cygwin's /etc/profile sets the PATH. Could /etc/profile please also add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the end of the PATH? > It doesn't add any other Windows folders so why this one. ###

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-17 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 17.11.2020 um 20:54 schrieb tealhill via Cygwin: Dear all: ### Background information (you can skip this)  ... ### The problem 32-bit tools, such as 32-bit Cygwin, don't usually see the real System32 directory.  Instead, when they try to look inside System32, Windows shows them the

Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-17 Thread tealhill via Cygwin
Dear all: ### Background information (you can skip this) I use Pluckeye 0.99.60 for Windows. This is a self-control tool, available online. It can help to stop me from visiting certain time-wasting websites. I also use Pluckeye's command-line component, pluck.exe. [I invoke the tool