Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: From: "Schaible, Joerg" To: "'cygwin-list'" Subject: RE: B20: make fails to execute command Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:34:36 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id EAA13043 Hello Wilson, >D:\nisacompile\code\component_A>d:\public\bin\make -f Makefile.compile >perl -e "$path=`path`;print $path;" >When we execute the perl command line under WinNT 4.0 service pack 3, we >have >the following output: >D:\>perl -e "$$path=`path`;print $$path;" >PATH=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\Office;C:\Program >Files\Maestro.nt\;C:\NTRESKIT;C:\NTRESKIT\Perl;C:\Program;C:\Program Fi >les\InterAccess\Companion;;C:\Program >Files\Rational\ClearCase\bin;;c:\orant\bin The environment variables are case sensitive! $path is empty in my shell! In UNIX mode PATH is converted to something like /usr/bin:/winnt/system32:/winnt:/progra~1/micros~1/Office" ... If you do not use a pearl version based on the cygwin.dll it won't handle these paths! Try to run the shell in DOS/Win mode (have a look at the batch file starting the shell). Greetings Jörg -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com