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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: ./configure in any package gives "error: cannot find input file: \WINDOWS\oracle.ini" error
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:09:56 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 22 September 2004 07:17

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Mark Aufflick wrote:
> 
> > ./configure in any package gives "error: cannot find input 
> file: \WINDOWS\oracle.ini" error

> At a guess, something you installed earlier created an environment
> variable with a name that either configure or something called by
> configure uses.  You could try simply "env | grep oracle.ini".

  Or there is some executable in the $PATH that has the same name as one of
the tests or executables that configure depends on.  Try setting a really
minimal path with 

export
PATH=/bin:${SYSTEMROOT}/system32:${SYSTEMROOT}:${SYSTEMROOT}/system32/wbem

and then run configure and see if it helps.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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