Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] msysDVLPR - GCC seems broken

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Luke Dunstan wrote:
>>
>>What version of msys-1.0.dll are you using?  Older versions of 1.0.8
>>than the current release candidate didn't function properly for
>>msysdvlpr.
> 
> 
> Actually the problems were fixed after the release of rc-2. To refresh your
> memory:
> 

Thanks for doing that, I must be having a touch of CRS.

> "With rc-2 I realise that the patch to check IsMsys() before translating
> environment variables is slightly incorrect, because now I can't run any
> MSYS-dependent executables that are outside /bin. For example when I try
> running MSYS GCC (or msys-envp.exe), the PATH Windows searches for the DLL
> is apparently whatever PATH was before MSYS was started. This is because
> winenv() needs to be called even for IsMsys(), as you can see looking at
> spawn.cc version 1.7 before envblock translation was added. I guess the
> reason it doesn't need to be called for programs in cygexec paths is because
> the MSYS/Cygwin DLL would always be in the same directory as the executable.
> 
> Is that correct?
> 

Yes.

Earnie.

P.S.: CRS - Cranial Retention Syndrome