Re: Path Parsing Bug.

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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
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