cmd.exe from Cygwin

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Jeenu V wrote:
>> For all we know bldmake could be bldmake.bat which contains a line such as:
>>
>> sh E:\Symbian\M04765_Symbain_OS_V9.5\bin\Tech\Viewepoc32\tools\bldmake.bat
>>
>> Intending to use Symbian's version of "sh" which can handle backslashes but
>> due to how your PATH is setup it's using Cygwin's version of "sh" which
>> doesn't like the backslashes. I'm not saying that's exactly what's going on,
>> I'm saying that we don't know given your description so far.
> 
> I think I've make little progress in this regard: I compared
> environment variables from an original cmd.exe and that of cmd.exe
> invoked from cygwin bash. I noticed that, for the one invoked from
> cygwin, the %Path% variable had cygwin\bin directories before all
> Windows paths. After I removed the cygwin\bin directories, the same
> utility seem to work fine (as of now). How can I prevent cygwin\bin
> directories occupying at the beginning of %path%?

The Cygwin paths are added in '/etc/profile'.  Obviously, you can
remove them though that will make your configuration non-standard
and unsupported.  Essentially, this would make Cygwin tools
inaccessible when running 'bash', which doesn't sound like what
you really want.  Obviously, you could add the Cygwin paths
somewhere else to give Symbian priority but this is likely to just
cause other conflicts and, again, not be what you really want.  So
to me, the question comes down to which tools to you really want to
use, Symbian's, Cygwin's, or something else?  Once you can answer
that, you should be able to configure things so that you get the
proper set for your needs.

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