On Apr 11 09:49, Csaba Raduly wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Duncan Roe wrote: > > Thanks Dave - removing the old cygwin dlls from C:\WINDOWS fixed gcc & > > alternatives. > > I put them there because I like to have the odd cygwin utility available > > to CMD.EXE. > > > > May put them back - but will take more care with them in future, > > Adding c:\cygwn\bin to the Windows PATH might be a better solution; > that's what I did.
And, just for kicks, moving the Cygwin DLL does not work as expected. The files under /etc are searched relative to the path of the Cygwin DLL, which is supposed to be in /bin. If it's not there, it will search the etc files in ..\\etc from it's new position. Confusion ensues. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple