diff -ru source/general.c source-new/general.c
--- source/general.c	2016-08-11 08:16:56.000000000 -0700
+++ source-new/general.c	2017-08-07 20:22:31.581566466 -0700
@@ -909,10 +909,10 @@
      `:'.  If I is 0, then the path has a leading colon.  Trailing colons
      are handled OK by the `else' part of the if statement; an empty
      string is returned in that case. */
-  if (i && string[i] == ':')
+  if (i && string[i] == ';')
     i++;
 
-  for (start = i; string[i] && string[i] != ':'; i++)
+  for (start = i; string[i] && string[i] != ';'; i++)
     ;
 
   *p_index = i;