From: dimm@vnet.ibm.com ("dimm@vnet.ibm.com") Subject: (none) 29 Oct 1996 02:15:20 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BBC590.34AC7320.cygnus.gnu-win32@ppc11.haifa.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'mcneils@applique.sedd.trw.com'" Original-Cc: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Sean McNeil wrote: > > make had problems with ./move-if-changed. This is where I put the > "sh " in front of them and things were fine. this should be in the FAQ too, unless they fix it in the next release, and apparently they will. I solved this problem by putting . (dot) as the last path in my PATH env. variable, (though the exact position of . in $PATH is not really important). It's amazing how programmers' minds go through the same patterns of thinking. I did use to insert sh in front of every script name in Makefile too, before I came up with the idea of modifying $PATH... Regards, Dmitri Makarov. dimm@vnet.ibm.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".