"Craveiro, Marco" wrote:
>
> hello Corinna,
>
> thanks for your help. this is probably a newbie related problem... It
> appears it is to do with where I start gdb from: if I do it from bash it
> gives me all the environment variables, if I do it from emacs - with emacs
> starting from bash - PWD and a few others are missing but some are there.
> I'm using NT emacs.
>
The problem is that the NTEMACS isn't a Cygwin program and therefore
doesn't inherit the parent's environment. Gdb on the other hand does
inherit the parent processes environment but not the grand-parent's
environment. This isn't a bug with either gdb or Cygwin.
Earnie.
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