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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 13:50:58 -0800 (PST)
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Thanks everyone for the very quick reply...

I first did as Vincent advised and installed a make on the cygwin itself...
and removed all the reference to the windows program files folder from the
path. Then it worked, but I think I will try what you've said Dave, if I
find anything useful I will post to the forum!

Many thanks!


Dave Korn-9 wrote:
> 
> On 30/01/2011 12:56, Tim Prince wrote:
>> On 1/30/2011 6:34 AM, Sunoki wrote:
>>>
>>> $ make
>>> cygwin warning:
>>>    MS-DOS style path detected: /usr/local/bin/C:\Program
>>>    Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /usr/local/bin/C:/Program
>>>    CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
>>> warning.
>>>    Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>>>      http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>>> Can't find C:\Program on PATH.
> 
>> Yes, the warning comes about in part due to the use of an unquoted path
>> with spaces.
> 
>   Not directly it doesn't.  My PATH has spaces in it and everything works
> just
> fine.  The shell knows to only separate $PATH at colons.
> 
>   That "Can't find" error message doesn't look like anything make itself
> would
> output to me, and how did /usr/local/bin get concatenated to C:\Program
> anyway?  (Note that it doesn't have a trailing slash in the path, so
> something
> has done this deliberately.)
> 
>   I think the problem is likely to be that the makefile itself is doing
> some
> kind of string processing on the PATH, or perhaps that it is being passed
> on a
> commandline somewhere unquoted and ending up looking like multiple words
> to
> the receiving program.
> 
>   Sunoki, if that isn't enough of a clue to work out what's going wrong,
> there's a really useful version of make with a source-level debugger built
> in
> called 'remake' that you can get from
> http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/remake/.
> (Last time I checked, it was a straightforward "configure && make && make
> install" to build out-of-the-box, so it should be easy to try out if you
> want.)
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
> 
> 
> 
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