On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Joseph Elwell wrote: > First off, I'm not subscribed to this list, so if you'd like me to hear > any follow ups please cc me. > > I ran across a bug recently. I build Mozilla regularly using cygwin > tools on windows XP. Recently I installed Norton Ghost. It added to my > System variables path "C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton > Ghost\". This entry in my path caused Make to die. My path would end up > looking like this: > > >Path=C:\WINDOWS\System32;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program > Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System;"C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton >Ghost\";C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:\Program >Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual >Studio\Common\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual >Studio\VC98\bin;C:\moztools\bin;c:\cygwin\bin > > In paticular I would type make and get results like this: > make: make: Command not found > > Removing the Norton Entry, or more specifically removing the double > quotes from around the Norton entry got make working again. > > Thanks, > Joseph Elwell.
Joseph, Are you having this problem from within a cmd window or a bash shell? What does your path look like in a bash shell? What does 'which make' show? What other commands don't work with the above path? Are there any that do? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/