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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update | ||||
| 0009878 | CMake | CMake | public | 2009-11-10 11:41 | 2010-02-09 14:09 | ||||
| Reporter | Michael McFarland | ||||||||
| Assigned To | David Cole | ||||||||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | have not tried | ||||
| Status | closed | Resolution | duplicate | ||||||
| Platform | OS | OS Version | |||||||
| Product Version | CMake-2-6 | ||||||||
| Target Version | Fixed in Version | ||||||||
| Summary | 0009878: Windows installer destroys user path | ||||||||
| Description | After running the Windows installer cmake-2.6.4-win32-x86.exe with the box checked to add cmake to my user path, that path was *replaced* with the string "C:\Program Files\CMake 2.6\bin". Many other libraries and programs had previously been in my path, which can only be recovered with a system restore. The installer needs to append the cmake path to any existing PATH settings. | ||||||||
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(0018787) David Cole (manager) 2009-12-09 22:46 |
I tried this with an installer built with today's CVS CMake and could not reproduce the issue on my Windows Vista machine. The behavior should be that it appends CMake's path to the end of your existing PATH variable. That's what I'm seeing here. Please send more details, if you have them: - What version of Windows did this happen on? - Are you sure it was the CMake installer that did this? - Did you install anything else around the same time as this? |
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(0018798) David Cole (manager) 2009-12-10 11:51 |
I tried the official CMake 2.6.4 binary installer downloaded from cmake.org in three scenarios just now: - on Vista, as an admin user - on XP, as an admin user - on XP, as a non-admin user In each case, I verified that before installing, I had a value in my USER PATH variable. After installing, the value was appended with CMake's bin dir (PATH=%PATH%;C:\...\CMake 2.6\bin). Then, after uninstalling, the value was back to its original value again. I also tried an installer that I built myself against CVS CMake, and it also did not reproduce on Vista, as an admin user. Were you using the official installer from cmake.org? Or one that you built yourself? Did you install anything else that may have destroyed your user PATH value? How are you checking your user PATH value? I could not reproduce the symptoms described here, so I am closing it. If you have more/new/different information that would enable me to reproduce the issue, please re-open it and add a note with that new information. Thanks, David Cole |
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| Issue History | |||
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
| 2009-11-10 11:41 | Michael McFarland | New Issue | |
| 2009-11-10 11:51 | Bill Hoffman | Status | new => assigned |
| 2009-11-10 11:51 | Bill Hoffman | Assigned To | => David Cole |
| 2009-12-09 22:46 | David Cole | Note Added: 0018787 | |
| 2009-12-09 22:48 | David Cole | Relationship added | duplicate of 0008959 |
| 2009-12-10 11:51 | David Cole | Note Added: 0018798 | |
| 2009-12-10 11:51 | David Cole | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2009-12-10 11:51 | David Cole | Resolution | open => unable to reproduce |
| 2010-02-09 13:55 | Bill Hoffman | Relationship added | duplicate of 0010257 |
| 2010-02-09 14:08 | Bill Hoffman | Status | resolved => closed |
| 2010-02-09 14:09 | Bill Hoffman | Resolution | unable to reproduce => duplicate |
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