Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <20000609165805.8661.qmail@web123.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:58:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: cygwin 1.1.2: undefined reference to `setlinebuf' To: Adam Schlegel Cc: tsfu@graduate.hku.hk, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, jason_fu@hkmc.com.hk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Adam Schlegel wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > *IMPERITIVE* /usr/bin must be *first* in the list for PATH. > > > This may be a stupid question, but why does /usr/bin have to be *first*? Because, if any of us nice netizens are going to help debug a problem, we must know that you have something standard to help debug. > Is it not sufficient to have it somewhere near the front of your path, so > that there is the possibility that certain programs can override the > default ones. Yes, but don't expect adequate help from this list. > For example, I like to maintain a ~/bin directory at the > start of my path so that I can easily stress-test programs that I am > building, without adding them to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. So, why can't you just add it to the end of PATH. If your testing something you're replacing I understand that you want the that bin first but how often do you do that? > Does this break something that I haven't noticed yet? Most likely. It was the cause of another problem I justed moving /usr/bin to the front of the path on and I didn't think that it could have been the problem. The reported fix was the moving of /usr/bin to the first item in the list. > Or is it just a bad habit that I should break as soon as possible? > Yes, break the bad habit. Cheers, ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com