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Re: Cygwin fresh install imports Windows PATH which includes spaces causing errors


On 24/07/2012 17:50, Christopher Faylor wrote:

The Cygwin version of make would not display "c:" anything. That's not a Cygwin path specification and it shouldn't even be possible for a Cygwin program to see the Windows PATH environment variable. You must be running a non-cygwin make. Spaces in the PATH are acceptable on both Linux and Cygwin and Windows.

That said, however, make does not deal well with spaces in file
specifications.  If something is actually parsing a PATH environment
variable then it could cause problems.

cgf

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It was actually that make wasn't installed, it works now. I was expecting the usual "bash: make: command not found"


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