On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:38:05PM +0100, "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What sets LIB in the cygwin environment? It comes verbatim from the > > DOS environment list but I don't see the importation in any of the > > layered rc files (but I could've missed it). And is there a way to > > automatically make cygwin translate these paths from backslash to > > forward slash when importing? You'd think that would be the default. > > Is there a way to suppress all importation or all but a list of > > explicitly named variables? Obviously I can exclude some by > > redefining them in the bashrc files, but what I'd rather do is > > exclude all except those I want included, in case some software > > installs new ones. > > LIB isn't used by Cywin, but it is used by Perl. Just unset it before > the build, it is not needed.
How is it used by Perl? Or do you just mean the use of MakeMaker passing it to subdirs? -- 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/