> I'am not familiar with windows/cygwin, but I guess that this can be 
> found in the control panel/ syetem/ advanced/ environment variables

That just sets the Windows environment variables, Cygwin can import some of those environment variables, but some are set separately.

I found this user's guide for Cygwin:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html

Here is a specific section on setting environment variables:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html

Some variables may also be set in the files .profile or .bashrc, they need to be checked to make sure.

-- Chris Caudle


