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0010063

CMake

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2009-12-18 01:59

2010-02-09 13:54

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Thomas Bernard

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normal

Severity

major

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

duplicate

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CMake-2-8

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Summary

0010063: Windows installer destroys user path

Description

The installer will replace the contents of the path variable with the installation path of cmake.

Additional Information

I looked through the issue list and found that this problem has already come up twice with previous versions of CMake:
0009878: Windows installer destroys user path

The issue was solved as not reproductible. I've had the issue just yesterday with cmake 2.8.

I had a rather long path variable definition and what i'm guessing is that there is a limitition somewhere in the installer to the maximum length of the string. When the original path is too big it might not get read in properly thus leading to a blind replacement with the cmake path.
This is realy a blind guess...

Hope this helps fix the issue.

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0010257

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Bill Hoffman

Installer erasing windows PATH

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(0019357) Michael Wagner (reporter) 2010-01-28 11:41	Hi, I just stumbled across the same problem. After I used the installer (I chose "Set path for all users") my PATH variable consisted only of the path pointing to cmake.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2009-12-18 01:59	Thomas Bernard	New Issue
2010-01-28 11:41	Michael Wagner	Note Added: 0019357
2010-02-09 13:54	Bill Hoffman	Relationship added	duplicate of 0010257
2010-02-09 13:54	Bill Hoffman	Status	new => closed
2010-02-09 13:54	Bill Hoffman	Resolution	open => duplicate