Re: [Boost-build] Cygwin and PATH

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-12 09:36:52

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> We have a ticket in Boost Trac about need to set
> PATH when using cygwin gcc:
> 
> 	http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1041
> 
> Unfortunately, cygwin is already at the bottom of my
> list of important toolsets, and using cygwin gcc from
> cmd.exe makes it even worse.
> 
> So, it's not likely I'll get to this issue in the nearest 10 years.
> Anybody wants to adopt the issue, or should I wontfix it?

I assigned it to myself, but here's the more general plea/explanation on 
why fixing this is important... It's not really a problem for Cygwin 
only. In general the gcc toolset, and most others, don't do what the 
msvc and other Windows toolsets of doing precommand setup. It's a 
general pattern that it seems to me should be handled generically like 
the CONFIG_COMMAND var. Regardless... I'm fine with doing this myself ;-)

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