Re: At hair pulling stage

[Syd Polk <spolk@baritoneconsulting.com>]

On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 06:11 , Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jordan [mailto:jordan.howarth@cmis.csiro.au]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 2:35 AM
>> To: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
>> Subject: At hair pulling stage
>>
>>
>>
>> + SN 5.0 Windows binaries running on Win2000
>> + CYGWIN internet download last night
>>
>>
>> SNav cannot find "rm", "g++" or any other cygwin based program. It can
>> only find "make". I am assuming that SNav has its own version of make
>> and so doesn't need to go looking for it.
>
> I don't know if SN was compiled for CYGWIN, or as a native WIN32 program
> (tip: look at the DLLs needed by SN; if you don't find cygwin1.dll then 
> SN
> is a pure WIN32 program).
>
> If SN is a pure WIN32 program then he will not be able to find 
> /usr/bin/rm,
> as this file, when viewed from Windows, is "C:\cygwin\usr\bin\rm", 
> assuming
> you installed cygwin in "C:\cygwin" as the installer propose it.

SN is a pure Win 32 program.

>
> You must then put "C:\cygwin\usr\bin" in your Windows path, so that SN 
> will
> be able to find the cygwin tools.
>

This is the correct diagnosis. The path must have Windows pathnames in 
it for SN to work.

> HTH
>
> 	Bernard
>
> PS: Note that with old versions of Cygwin (back to the B20 era), this 
> was
> not a problem as cygwin installed in the C: root directory by default; 
> you
> also can install newer cygwins there, although you get bored by the
> installer that will insist that this is "not recommended", while I never
> understand what the problem may be (and I'm using it installed there 
> without
> any problem for quite a long time).
>
>>
>> /usr/bin is in both my cygwin and windows path, ie. "which rm" yields
>> "/usr/bin/rm".
>>
>> What gives? I thought that SNav would drive of at least one of these
>> paths.  Please help me identify the fix for this error as premature
>> balding is supposed to be a gift from nature not RH.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>> P.S. Please Cc: me directly in the reply as I have not subscribed to
>> the list, yet!
>>
>>
>> --
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Syd Polk
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