From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 797 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2008 18:39:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 781 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jan 2008 18:39:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (HELO fg-out-1718.google.com) (72.14.220.154) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:38:32 +0000 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l27so785589fgb.42 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:38:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.62.3 with SMTP id k3mr2204419fga.8.1200595109784; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:38:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.2.2? ( [77.193.21.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm3866202fge.7.2008.01.17.10.38.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:38:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <478FA0A0.9000109@free.fr> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:04:00 -0000 From: Marc/MDPI314 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: help!!!! References: <57b452fc0801170614m717acc6cm7afee8e1d227f698@mail.gmail.com> <478F88A7.8000209@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <478F88A7.8000209@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00346.txt.bz2 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote > octavian andrei wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I installed cygwin in my PC. After that, I also wanted to install "The >> Jam utility" (http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html). I encountered >> some problems and the reason is because the PATH variable (printenv >> PATH) contains some Windows-based directories (like: >> /usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/Programes Files/Common Files/Symbian/Tools) > > > Huh? Those look like POSIX paths to me. > > >> I tried to run "jam.exe" and the error was "This application has >> failed because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the appication >> may fix this problem" >> >> Any suggestion how to remove the space character from the PATH variable? > > > Sounds to me like the problem is that the directory with 'cygwin1.dll' > in it is missing from your path in whatever shell/console you're > running 'jam.exe' from. If that's not true, perhaps it's best to back > up and provide us with a step-by-step sequence that reproduces the > problem in context. Having full path names with spaces in your path > is not a guaranteed problem. > > 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 There's perhaps something to do about that. -- 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/