[Haskell-cafe] Re: Compilling GHC on Vista

[Claus Reinke]

>  I've solved the problem by adding the correct paths to the system's
> PATH variable.  I don't know why, but it seems that just putting "SET
> PATH=..." in cygwin.bat doesn't work...

cygwin.bat is read before bash is started; bash later reads profile and
bashrc files that tend to redefine PATH. for instance, '/etc/profile' puts
'/usr/local/bin' and others at the front of PATH.

claus