Luke Kendall wrote:
I see that by default PATH includes some entries like
%SystemRoot%/System32
I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the
expected C:\WINDOWS value.
This of course causes problems. Would a backslash-style path work
correctly if it were properly interpolated into the PATH? Is the %
notation special magic for Cygwin to handle DOS-isms?
The case variance may be of interest, in that case.
I think you're falsely attributing your errors to this. The cygwin DLL
takes care of all the win32 -> posix translation of the path, and it
knows about %SystemRoot%. If this were really the case don't you think
tons of things would break? Try "echo $PATH" at your shell prompt and
you'll see that the systemroot is correctly substituted.
FWIW, I think environment variables are case-insensitive at the win32
API level. They preserve case but are not sensitive to it, just like
ntfs.
Brian