On 6/16/2018 9:33 AM, Soegtrop, Michael wrote: > Dear Marco, > >> this is due to the preference given by Windows to load dll's from the same >> directory where the program is resident instead of using the ones in the PATH > > yes, this is expected behavior. What is not expected is that the location of > the system root in the Windows file system does not depend on the loaded > cygwin1.dll. >
Cygwin uses the parent of the path containing the cygwin1.dll as the root path. Having multiple Cygwin's on disk isn't an issue. Starting another session of a Cygwin using cygwin1.dll on a different path is. It just doesn't work properly. Your use of windows cmd to clear the environment and start another session on a different path works because the children then don't have a reference to the original parent. -- cyg Simple -- 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