From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5337 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2008 18:45:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 5306 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jan 2008 18:45:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (194.72.81.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:44:42 +0000 Received: from rainbow ([192.168.8.46] RDNS failed) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:44:39 +0000 From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <57b452fc0801170614m717acc6cm7afee8e1d227f698@mail.gmail.com> <478F88A7.8000209@cygwin.com> <478FA0A0.9000109@free.fr> Subject: RE: help!!!! Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:36:00 -0000 Message-ID: <021601c85939$040e8ed0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <478FA0A0.9000109@free.fr> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-01/txt/msg00347.txt.bz2 On 17 January 2008 18:38, Marc/MDPI314 wrote: > Indeed, I have a similar problem with PATH variable, but I noticed this > was not caused by spaces, > but by the fact that Windows PATH is not case sensitive (and may contain > "program files" or "Program Files") ... > and it's naturally wrong under cygwin which is case sensitive. > My errors occured in "configure" scripts (many different applications) > when configure is searching commands trough PATH variable. > So I modified the cygwin.bat batch file too force a clean PATH with only > C:\WINDOWS and C:\WINDOWS\system32, translated into cygwin by > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS and /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32 >=20 > There's perhaps something to do about that. We could perhaps add an option to cygpath to fix up the case of paths pas= sed in. In the absence of that, constructs like: cygpath -p `cygpath -ws 'C:\program files \'` can work around the problem by using the short name - thus fixing both spac= es and cases at the same time! cheers, DaveK --=20 Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/