RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?

Earnie earnie@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Aug 16 12:26:00 GMT 2011


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> The patch also changes the default search path. As before, it first
> checks for LD_LIBRARY_PATH. However, given the fact that all shared
> libs which are usually in /usr/lib on other systems, are in /usr/bin
> on Cygwin, it makes a lot of sense to add /usr/bin to the search
> path.
>

Except that the location of the binary is always searched regardless.

> Is that something we should do now?

If you're going to do it anyway, yes, but I question the need to add
/usr/bin.

Earnie



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