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Subject: RE: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:52:42 -0800
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> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:19:20 -0700
> From: eblake
> Subject: Re: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe
>
> Hmm. Does your $PATH include '.' somewhere near the beginning? That
> may be the culprit; I _never_ run with '.' at the beginning (too much
> risk of a trojan horse executable taking over); running with '.' at the
> end or not in PATH at all would be safer.
>
Just for the archive, a dot in $PATH can be caused by a double ; in the win=
dows
path. A ";;" in the windows path creates a null entry that gets interpreted
as a ".".=20=09=09=20=09=20=20=20=09=09=20=20

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