Re: [Mingw-msys] getenv bug with a PATH containing a quoted entry

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Rereading your report:

<quote who="Angus Leeming">
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>
> This was compiled using the MinGW g++ 3.4. I installed MinGW/MinSYS in mid
> December using all the latest bits and bobs on the download page. I guess
> (am no expert!) that the C library routines are to be found in
> libcrtdll.a, right?
>
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 angus angus 357874 Sep  5 15:23 libcrtdll.a
>

The C runtime is MSVCRT.DLL and its MinGW import library is libmsvcrt.a. 
CRTDLL.DLL was the first version used with the first release of Win95 it
is very old and not maintained by MS.  The MinGW gcc and binutils use
-lmsvcrt as the system C runtime library by default.

It is possible that the MSYS runtime which converts PATH to Windows format
on execution of a non-MSYS binary has corrupted the environment string. 
As I said, put it in the bug tracker so I don't lose sight of it.

Earnie

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