Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com 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: <19990211130453.5655.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:04:53 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with make and executables in current directory To: Richard Stanton , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ---Richard Stanton wrote: > > My PATH environment variable did not (until just now) include "." as one of > its entries. Until recently, this caused no problems. Windows seems to look > for executables in the current directory anyway, and I could use GNU make to > compile and run C programs without needing to specify a directory. > > Just recently, however, GNU make has stopped being able to find executables > in the current directory, unless "." is explicitly included in PATH. > Are you sure "Just recently"? > a. Is this behavior intentional? > It is the expected behavior. The cygwin product is trying to emulate UNIX. > b. Rather stranger, why has it only just (last week or so) stopped finding > executables in the current directory? This has not only happened to me > (Windows 95), but also to a colleague running NT4. Both of us are almost > 100% sure that it used to work until recently, and that we have not changed > anything in our setups. > Are you positive nothing changed? Or is it that your make has never had to execute a program in the current directory before? > This is all with Cygwin 20.1. > And any prior version. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com