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RE: ($shell cd) result different if including cygwin/bin directory in path
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:16:15 +0100
- Subject: RE: ($shell cd) result different if including cygwin/bin directory in path
On 11 April 2006 13:27, Omar BELKHODJA wrote:
> It is true, that this is a third-party tool(the gnu make), but it seems
> that it is not really strange to the cygwin environment, as the fact of
> adding the cygwin/bin directory changes the behaviour of this tool.
No, it's your fault. Don't you understand what the PATH variable does? You
want make to execute a command, and you have put a different file with the
same name as that command in your PATH. What were you expecting to happen?
cheers,
DaveK
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