Re: win32 "Path"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:48:58 +0200
> From: David Baird <address@hidden>
> 
> > Regarding the win32 "Path" discussions. I noticed that even though my
> > system environement variable is called "PATH". When i type "set" in a
> > cmd.exe, I still see "Path" as the variable name.  This is how it
> > appears in the 3.81 beta make as well I noticed.
> 
> This is my observation as well. CMD.EXE forces the name to Path, and
> seems to be case sensative. If you set PATH and Path in a make file,
> it is the Path variable which gets recognized by CMD.EXE.

So it sounds like we need to make PATH handling shell-sensitive.
Which is what Make does now, so I wonder what is the problem with the
current code.  Can someone tell what we should fix there and perhaps
even post a suggested patch?

TIA