On Oct 24 23:17, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> 2014-10-24 22:16, Christian Franke wrote:
> >
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>
> >> Sigh.
> >>
> >> I don't like the idea either that this simple change breaks existing
> >> scenarios. I'm inclined to revert this change.
> >>
> >> Christian, would you mind terribly to re-add the tweak to postfix
> >> to set $PATH?
> >>
> >
> > No problem.
> >
> > Another possible solution:
> > Check for e.g. CYGWIN_DLLPATH environment variable before calling
> > SetDllDirectory().
> >
> > If unset or empty, call SetDllDirectory("X:\path_to_cygwin\bin");
> > else if set to ".", do nothing.
> > else call SetDllDirectory(CYGWIN_DLLPATH);
> >
> > The above 'make check' should then work again as 'CYGWIN_DLLPATH=. make
> > check'.
> I can buy this. Setting 'export CYGWIN_DLLPATH := .' at the beginning of the
> Makefile will
> do the job.
>
> >
> > Possible enhancement: If AddDllDirectory() is available (>= Win8), accept a
> > real search path in CYGWIN_DLLPATH.
> Also perhaps you can use yet another subitem in the CYGWIN environment
> variable?If AddDllDirectory works without much hassle, which I have to test first, why introduce CYGWIN_DLLPATH or another CYGWIN item? LD_LIBRARY_PATH would be the one we want then, wouldn't it? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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