Re: compile failure and other trouble

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:52:27AM +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
> > At 00:40 8/12/2001, Branko =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=C8ibej?= wrote the following:
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Cynic wrote:
>...
> > > Why would you have to restart the ... Ah, Win9x, and
> > > autoexec.bat, and similar horrible things. Yep, I wasn't really
> > > thinking about those windosaurs when I wrote the original .dsps.
> >
> > Well, I'll welcome if you prove me wrong, but I use NT 4 and 5,
> > and both require
> > restart for env. vars created through the control panel to become
> > effective.
>
> NT5 certainly doesn't need a restart.
> - open a dos box
> - c:\> set
>
> - go to 'My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables'
> - Make your additions and changes
>
> - open a _new_ dos box
> - c:\> set
>
> Here (on w2k) I get the old sitution in the first dos box and the
> new situation in the second.

Well... regardless of the issue on Win2K, the restart makes the requirement
a non-starter on the other windows platforms. Essentially, needing to set an
environment variable is just not kosher.

The suggested change to modify paths in MSVC itself is The Right Thing(tm).

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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