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On Sep 23 12:46, John Emmas wrote:
> I first started using cygwin almost exactly a year ago.  Because of other
> pressures I put it on the back burner (about 6 months ago) at which point,
> it was current.  However, I haven't upgraded for about 6 months.
>
> This morning I needed to compile an app that uses the C call,
> getenv("PATH");  Let's say for the sake of argument that this was my path
> (as displayed in a console window after typing "set") :-
>
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/a:/b:/c:/d:/e
>
> That's not my actual path - just an example.  Cygwin's getenv() is returning
> something like this:-
>
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/a:/b:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c:/d:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/e:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:
>
> Basically, any path folder that ends in '/bin' is being inserted into the
> path multiple times and I just wondered if this was a known problem?
> FWIW if I use the glib equivalent (g_getenv) I get the same problem (which
> probably just indicates that g_getenv is a wrapper around getenv).
>
> Thanks for any advice,

I can't reproduce this behaviour.

Maybe the cygcheck output as described here
                                       vvvv
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

would help to figure out what's wrong on your machine.


Corinna

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