I tried to recompile inetutils (in an attempt to check the earlier reported problem of rlogin and telnet not supporting UTF-8 anymore since cygwin 1.7.0-45) and ran into a problem with spaces in $PATH which aborted the compilation:
> cygport inetutils-1.5-4.cygport prep ... > cygport inetutils-1.5-4.cygport compile ... config.status: creating rlogin/Makefile ... config.status: creating telnet/Makefile ... ... Making all in ftpd make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/inetutils-1.5-4/build/ftpd' bison -y /usr/src/inetutils-1.5-4/src/inetutils-1.5/ftpd/ftpcmd.y if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/usr/src/inetutils-1.5-4/src/inetutils-1.5/ftpd -I.. -I/usr/src/inetutils-1.5-4/src/inetutils-1.5/lib -I../lib -I/usr/src/inetutils-1.5-4/src/inetutils-1.5/libinetutils -DPATH_FTPWELCOME=\"/etc/ftpwelcome\" -DPATH_FTPUSERS=\"/etc/ftpusers\" -DPATH_FTPLOGINMESG=\"/etc/motd\" -DPATH_FTPCHROOT=\"/etc/ftpchroot\" -DPATH_FTPDPID=\"/var/run/ftpd.pid\" -DPATH_NOLOGIN=\"/etc/nologin\" -O2 -pipe -DNCURSES_STATIC -MT ftpd.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/ftpd.Tpo" -c -o ftpd.o /usr/src/inetutils-1.5-4/src/inetutils-1.5/ftpd/ftpd.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/ftpd.Tpo" ".deps/ftpd.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/ftpd.Tpo"; exit 1; fi Can't find c:\Program on PATH. make[2]: *** [ftpcmd.c] Error 29 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/inetutils-1.5-4/build/ftpd' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/inetutils-1.5-4/build' make: *** [all] Error 2 *** ERROR: make failed Is this a generic problem? From the make output, it's not clear which program actually raised the problem ("Can't find c:\Program on PATH.") - gcc, mv, rm? I had the impression that spaces in path names (which unfortunately do occur under Windows) are usually handled properly. After this problem, even all the Makefiles were gone that cygport had previously reported to have generated, so I couldn't even try to manually compile. Is this another issue? Kind regards, Thomas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/