Re: B19; supporting a DOS-path such as C:\a\b\c;C:\d\e\f;D:\g\h

[cgf at cygnus dot com (Christopher G. Faylor)]

In article <355A1145.90387D5C.cygnus.gnu-win32@ActiveSW.COM>,
Chris Callsen <Chris@activesw.com> wrote:
>Let me first say that I like using bash on windows (cmd.exe makes me
>insane). Naturally, bash uses a Unix-style PATH for finding things.
>However, when bash runs "native" Windows applications these see a
>Unix-style PATH but expect a DOS style path. An example of this would be
>'nmake', or the Microsoft Tools (C compiler, linker, etc).

cygwin32 changes the PATH environment variable into native Windows format
before every program invocation.  That means if you set your PATH
to '//c/bin;//c/windows/system' and run a non-cygwin32 program, the
program will see 'C:\BIN;C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM' as the value of the PATH
variable.

If you are seeing any other behavior than this, then you're seeing a
bug.  Please document the specific misbehavior and I'll try to fix it.
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