From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3291 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2012 15:58:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 3282 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jul 2012 15:58:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_CG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from blu0-omc1-s25.blu0.hotmail.com (HELO blu0-omc1-s25.blu0.hotmail.com) (65.55.116.36) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:57:50 +0000 Received: from BLU0-SMTP184 ([65.55.116.7]) by blu0-omc1-s25.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:57:48 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([77.27.91.195]) by BLU0-SMTP184.phx.gbl over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:57:48 -0700 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:58:00 -0000 From: Aaron Schneider User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin fresh install imports Windows PATH which includes spaces causing errors References: <20120724155038.GD5572@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20120724155038.GD5572@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00536.txt.bz2 On 24/07/2012 17:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > The Cygwin version of make would not display "c:" anything. That's not > a Cygwin path specification and it shouldn't even be possible for a > Cygwin program to see the Windows PATH environment variable. You must > be running a non-cygwin make. Spaces in the PATH are acceptable on both > Linux and Cygwin and Windows. > > That said, however, make does not deal well with spaces in file > specifications. If something is actually parsing a PATH environment > variable then it could cause problems. > > cgf > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > It was actually that make wasn't installed, it works now. I was expecting the usual "bash: make: command not found" -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple