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Re: makewhatis script failing


Geoff Begley wrote:
> I was able to successfully run /usr/bin/gawk (V3.1.1-5) from the the
> prompt.
>
> I then created the following script
>
> #!/usr/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/gawk
>
> which produced the same error
> /usr/bin/gawk: not found
>
> Does anyone know why gawk doesn't want to execute from within a
> script?

Works for me - definitely a problem with your installation.

I imagine reinstalling Cygwin will fix it.

> Here is my cygcheck.out...

> Path: .
> C:\HOME\cygwin\bin
> C:\HOME\cygwin\usr\local\bin
> C:\HOME\cygwin\bin
> C:\HOME\cygwin\bin
> C:\HOME\cygwin\bin
> c:\WINNT\system32
> c:\WINNT
> c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
> C:\home\java\jdk141\bin
> c:\Program Files\SecureCRT 3.0
> C:\home\mysql\bin
> .
> C:\HOME\cygwin\bin

Whilst having the same directory in the path multiple times won't actually
break anything, it looks ugly, and will probably have a speed penalty.

> C:\HOME\cygwin                             /          system  binmode
> C:\Documents and Settings\gbegley\Desktop  /desktop   system  binmode
> C:\home                                    /home      system  binmode
> C:\HOME\cygwin/bin                         /usr/bin   system  binmode
> C:\HOME\cygwin/lib                         /usr/lib   system  binmode
> .                                          /cygdrive  user
binmode,cygdrive

Unconventional, but should still work fine.

>   653k 1998/10/30 C:\home\mysql\bin\cygwinb19.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0
>                   sys=4.0 "cygwinb19.dll" v0.0 ts=1998/7/15 13:50

Multiple versions of Cygwin is normally very bad news.

I'd raise the possibility that your 2 versions of Cygwin are interfering.

Max.


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