($shell cd) result different if including cygwin/bin directory in path

[Dave Korn]

On 11 April 2006 13:27, Omar BELKHODJA wrote:

> It is true, that this is a third-party tool(the gnu make), but it seems
> that it is not really strange to the cygwin environment, as the fact of
> adding the cygwin/bin directory changes the behaviour of this tool.


  No, it's your fault.  Don't you understand what the PATH variable does?  You
want make to execute a command, and you have put a different file with the
same name as that command in your PATH.  What were you expecting to happen?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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