X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: 1.5.21-2 - Problems with make and/or sh Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:44:12 +0100 Message-ID: <022f01c6c6c2$9937bdc0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <44EC66AD.2020409@buddydog.org> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 23 August 2006 15:31, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >> although I can't see it in your cygcheck output, I suppose you might >> have set the CDPATH environment variable. This results in the >> described effect of cd not working in the sh.exe, we had the problem >> here. Setting SHELL=/bin/bash in the Makefile also resolved the problem. >> >> Hope this helps > > Bingo! I unset CDPATH and now it works fine. Nice catch! I knew it had > to be something like that. I'm not going to set it, as it has caused me > confusion in the past anyway. Ah, it's because of the Bash POSIX mode: 6.11 Bash POSIX Mode ==================== [ ... ] When invoked as `sh', Bash enters POSIX mode after reading the startup files. [ ... ] 19. If `CDPATH' is set, the `cd' builtin will not implicitly append the current directory to it. This means that `cd' will fail if no valid directory name can be constructed from any of the entries in `$CDPATH', even if the a directory with the same name as the name given as an argument to `cd' exists in the current directory. That's why it didn't work even though sh == bash under cygwin and it works fine in bash. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/