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Re: Path Statement Not Being Evaluated by Bash in Cygwin


Ross MacGillivray <ross_macgillivray <at> yahoo.ca> writes:

> 
> 
> I am trying to test KDE 3.4 (and Qt 3.3) on Cygwin.
> 
> I have installed the additional packages needed for 
> KDE 3.4 and I even did a
> complete re-install of all packages to ensure that I have a clean system.
> 
> when I start bash and enter 'echo $path'.  This is the path statement 
> returned.
> 
> C:\cygwin>bash
> bash-2.05b$ pwd
> /
> bash-2.05b$ echo $path
> /usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/qt/3.3/bin:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/COMMON~1/GTK/2.0
> <snip>
> 
> When I run my startup script for KDE.
> 
  <snip>
> 
> I get two windows error messages report that two dll's cannot be found.
> The dll's are:  cygX11-6.dll and cyggt-mt-3.dll.
> 
> One DLL is in /usr/X11R6/bin and one DLL is in /opt/qt/3.3/bin
> 
> Both paths are in the path statement above.
> 
> What's going on here?
> 
> /Ross MacGillivray
> 
> 

Thank you for the two quick replies.

I had the following line in .bashrc

path="/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/qt/3.3/bin:$PATH"

(note the small letters at the beginning of the statement - CAPITALS
ROSS, CAPITALS!)

Anyway, thank you for the help.

/Ross


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