RE: Path : Win 2k : Munged Directory

["Reid Thompson" <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>]

I've used something along the lines of

$WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> which java
/home/rthompso/bin/java

$cat /home/rthompso/bin/java
#!/bin/bash
CLASSPATH=`cygpath -p -w $CLASSPATH`
/G/j2sdk1.4.0/bin/java.exe -classpath $CLASSPATH $*


There is also, I think, 

reid


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:52 PM
> To: Steve
> Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Re: Path : Win 2k : Munged Directory
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Steve wrote:
> 
> > Hi;
> >
> > I'm using cygwin on a win2k box.
> >
> > I haven't had any luck executing java from bash.
> > It works from DOS.
> >
> > The java path is C:\JDK\bin
> >
> > It is included in my PATH variable through windows via
> > Start | Control Panel | System | Advanced | Environment Variables
> >
> > All of the directories in my PATH are set from here.
> >
> > When I run "echo $PATH" from bash I noticed that all of those other 
> > directories in my PATH are correctly translated from 
> windows to cygwin 
> > format.  In other words C:\Foo becomes /cygdrive/c/Foo in bash.
> >
> > However C:\JDK\bin remains C:\JDK\bin
> >
> > I'm guessing this has something to do with the problem.
> > Any ideas on how I can fix it?
> >
> > I already tried setting a path variable in my .bashrc to no 
> avail. My 
> > windows PATH variable is set for the entire system.
> >
> > Steve
> 
> Is the "C:\JDK\bin" part quoted in the PATH?  If it is, 
> unquote it, i.e., change '...;"C:\JDK\bin";...' to 
> '...;C:\JDK\bin;...'.
> 	Igor
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