Re: Help Understanding Path Issue

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, mwoehlke wrote:

> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> > > While CC'ing me for some reason(?), Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > > (And was there a reason for that, or did you just hit 'reply all' by
> > > accident/reflex/because the hippo made me?)
> >
> > I always hit "Reply-All", and you didn't have Reply-To: set.
>
> Ah, so I don't. Probably because I am also using gmane to look at KDE lists;
> setting reply-to <cygwin> would be a little strange in that case. Too bad TB
> doesn't let you set things per-group :-(.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the clarification; no worries.
>
> > > > Actually, the list of variables automatically translated by Cygwin was
> > > > posted here at some point (it may even be in the FAQ).  At the very
> > > > least it's PATH, HOME, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but there may be others.
> > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Since when does Windows have any clue what to do with
> > > *that*? (Or it it folded into PATH?)
> >
> > Hmm...  [Digs into the sources]...  Yep, here's the full list as of today:
> > PATH, HOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH (yes!), TMPDIR, TMP, TEMP.  And no,
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not folded into PATH.  And don't ask me why it gets
> > converted...
>
> Ok, I won't... but at least my confusion is shared. I feel better now. :-)

As Corinna said, the ChangeLogs speak for themselves.  See the entry for
2005-05-21 in src/winsup/cygwin.
	Igor
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