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Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 07:57:44 +1000
From: John Williams <jwilliams AT itee DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
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Subject: Re: execvp error:cygwin+make+busybox
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:39:13AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
> 
>>Attempting to cross-compile Busybox 1.00 under Cygwin (1.5.16-1) I am 
>>hitting an error similar to one previously reported on the Cygwin list 
>>(Jan 05):
>>
>>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00657.html
>>

> IIRC, I also had this problem on Cygwin until I deleted the
> .EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES from Rules.mak.  I have a specialized build
> environment so it is possible that there are other things required to
> get things working after that, but this was the culprit which caused
> these problems.

That's done the trick - thanks for the quick response.  Am still 
checking to see if that has any follow-on effects (perhaps I should now 
explicitly export the important variables from Rules.mak?).

Cheers,

John

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