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Le 02/02/2011 11:04, Corinna Vinschen a =C3=A9crit :
>
> On Feb  1 23:41, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>> I'm reporting a cygwin bug...
>> of course I know I could edit the windows environment variables.
>> however, this problem has to be fixed.
>
> I agree.  It's not the user's fault that Windows applications and
> Windows itself add paths to the environment using quotes and trailing
> backslashes.  I applied a patch which removes those, but only when
> Cygwin actually fetches the Win32 environment and initially converts the
> path lists like %Path%.  This is not done when calling the
> cygwin_conv_path_list function from the application.

I'll try whenever possible (1 ou 2 days), thanks.

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
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