[ale] [Semi-OT] Cygwin Question

[Jeff Hubbs]

Mike - it seems like what happened within Cygwin is that the PATH and 
the ROOT variables aren't getting set/modified properly at all.

On 5/17/12 3:26 PM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 05/17/2012 03:19 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> Thanks, Brian.  I'm starting it using the Desktop icon that setup.exe
>> makes.  It turns out that a large part of the problem is that there's
>> also an installation of MKS Toolkit (which provides bash, Korn, and C
>> shells) on the same machine and it looks as though it and Cygwin
>> interfere in such a way that it's really the MKS Toolkit binaries that
>> Cygwin is using.  I may forgo using Cygwin i.l.o. MKS just to not have
>> to reverse-engineer a way for the two apps to coexist.
> Good to know.
>
> Probably all you need to do is put Cygwin before MKS in the system path,
> so that the system will prefer the cygwin versions.  But I assume that
> if MKS is installed then there must be a reason, and it would likely
> mean breaking MKS and whatever depends on it then.
>
> 	--- Mike
>
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