From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: why does /bin have to be *first* in the PATH? 5 Dec 1996 12:06:10 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612051902.GAA21191.cygnus.gnu-win32@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Content-Type: text Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com (gnu-win32) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Dear cygwin32 maintainers, I have programs that rely on the ability to do PATH=../scripts:$PATH some_script This breaks in gnu-win32 version b16. The following untested patch might help. --- spawn.cc Thu Aug 29 12:57:46 1996 +++ new.spawn.cc Fri Dec 6 05:55:01 1996 @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ debug_printf ("spawn_guts: %s is a script\n", prog_arg); char *sh_path_buf = (char *) alloca (MAX_PATH); - char *sh_path = (char *) find_exec ("sh", sh_path_buf); + char *sh_path = (char *) find_exec ("/bin/sh", sh_path_buf); char *f = (char *) alloca (strlen (copy) + strlen (sh_path) + 2); strcpy (f, sh_path); strcat (f, " "); -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".