Mark Sheppard wrote on Friday, November 07, 2003 3:33 PM: > We're getting a problem where a native windows console > program invoked from an interactive Cygwin bash shell seems > to be getting a truncated PATH environment variable. The > windows program in question is Boost Jam and for some people > it can't find a compiler that's definitely in a directory in > their path. If they re-arrange the directories in their path > to make the relevant one appear early on things start > working. And the same command invoked from cmd works without > having to re-arrange the path. > > Has anyone come across anything like this before? I had a > quick search of the archives but nothing turned up.
You might search for a limit in environment vars on this list. We had some threads about it lately including the reason. Regards, Jörg -- 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/
