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Re: PATH with spaces
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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