From: msacks AT y2000 DOT com (Marc Sacks) Subject: Trouble with configure; root directory changed on cd 7 May 1998 00:50:13 -0700 Message-ID: <01BD7909.73BFD420.msacks.cygnus.gnu-win32@y2000.com> Reply-To: "msacks AT y2000 DOT com" To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" I have been unable to run src/configure. I've encountered an assortment of problems, most of which I've been able to do something about. This one's got me stumped, though. The script chugs along fine until it starts recursing. Then it cd's to another directory (in my case, d:/cygnus/b19/mmalloc). No problem with that, but somehow it changes the definition of root to be that directory as well, so when it tries to run src/mmalloc/configure it can't find /bin/sh, since the value of root has been changed to d:/cygnus/b19/mmalloc. Does anyone have any idea how or why this could happen, or what to do about it? The configure code where the problem pops up is: for configdir in ${configdirs} ; do if [ -d ${srcdir}/${configdir} ] ; then eval echo Configuring ${configdir}... ${redirect} case "${srcdir}" in ".") ;; *) if [ ! -d ./${configdir} ] ; then if mkdir ./${configdir} ; then true else echo '***' "${progname}: could not make ${PWD=`pwd`}/${configdir}" 1>&2 exit 1 fi fi ;; esac POPDIR=${PWD=`pwd`} cd ${configdir} I don't see anything here that changes the meaning of root, but after the cd at the end it's been changed. Thanks for your help, anybody. Marc Sacks msacks AT primeon DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".