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On 03/12/2012 5:23 AM, Techie Help wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As suggested by Marco, I stripped the PATH to bare minimum and then it started building.
> But slowly  slowly, one at a time, I started adding more paths to path variable and finally I have restored it back to old one but its now building without any problem.
> So, I am not sure what happened.
>
> Also, can you please explain to me, why stripping path to bare minimum helped?
I'm not an expert, but I believe that several BLODA depend on the dlls 
they inject to be in PATH; strip the path and they fail to do their 
thing, leaving cygwin free to do its thing.

Ryan


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