Bob Rossi wrote: > Yes, thanks Keith! > > For the simple minded like myself, does this boil down to the fact that > the PATH_SEPARATOR is different if an application is run from a cmd or > msys shell? The way I would have worded it would have been much simpler. If your app links against a POSIX emulation layer (cygwin1.dll or msys-1.0.dll) then use colon, otherwise use semicolon. This is a static condition that does not change at all once the app is built, i.e. it does not depend on how it's executed. Assuming your app is a native app (i.e. the answer to the above is 'no') then even if your app is run from a MSYS sh.exe it should still get a copy of PATH that uses colons, since MSYS sh.exe should be able to tell that this is not a MSYS binary. The "how it tells" is either by looking at whether it's linked against msys-1.0.dll or whether it's installed in the MSYS bin directory -- I forget which method is used and I think it changed recently anyway. Brian _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
