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Bug 246860

Summary: Netbeans does not support case insensitive environment variables in Run/Environment
Product: cnd Reporter: adipose
Component: ProjectAssignee: ilia
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: moueza
Priority: P3    
Version: 8.1   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Other   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description adipose 2014-09-03 18:58:02 UTC 
Under project properties / run / environment, you can set environment variables.  However, although Windows supports case insensitive environment variable names, Netbeans does not.  Specifically, if you try to set the "PATH" variable, it is ignored by Netbeans.  If you set the "Path" variable, it sets the Windows Path.

From the command line in Windows:

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C:\>SET PATH=c:\mingw

C:\>SET PATH
Path=c:\mingw

C:\>
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Because of this Windows supported behavior, it is unexpected that setting PATH in Netbeans does not work in Windows.  But, it does not.