Hi,
On 4/17/06, Paul D. Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
%% Jim <address@hidden> writes:
j> In the old make system the windows environment variable PATH is
j> modified. It seems when i use GNU make it is not possible to update
j> this variable in a way that executables called by make such is
j> "gcc", "idl compiler", etc can see the modified variable.
As Billy said, normally you just modify the make variable PATH and that
is used as the shell's PATH.
There may be some differences in how this behaves when using GNU make on
Windows.
First, if you're using Cygwin's implementation of GNU make rather than
one from the FSF, you should contact the Cygwin folks: they have changes
to their version that we don't know about.
I use the cygwin version quite a bit. Some versions of Windows use
PATH, while others use Path (this is a Windows thing and not a cygwin
thing). I have seen situation where I need to set both variables
before launched programs work properly (not sure if Windows or cygwin
was at fault here), so I am now in the habit of exporting Path :=
$(PATH) when using make (actually we're not using the make that comes
with cygwin, but we are using make 3.79 or 3.80 compiled using gcc
that comes with cygwin).
I know that cygwin messes with the PATH, since it converts the Windows
semi-colon separated list with backslashes into a colon separated list
with forward slashes.
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Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/