1.5.21-2 - Problems with make and/or sh

Wed Aug 23 14:45:00 GMT 2006

Jens Wilken wrote:
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>> Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>> I'm trying to build YAZ: http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/
>>>> The ./configure works just fine, but when I try to make I get the
>> following error:
>>>> *** 07:18 AM *** /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 *** make Making all in
>> src /bin/sh: line 11: cd: src: No such file or directory make: ***
>> [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>> And it isn't kidding. If I type "sh", then "cd src" I get the same
>> error:
>>>> *** 08:22 AM *** /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 *** sh *** 08:22 AM ***
>> /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 *** ls -F ChangeLog Makefile.am
>> aclocal.m4 config.status* etc/ test/ yaz-config.in
>> Doxyfile Makefile.in buildconf.sh* configure* include/
>> util/ yaz.spec Doxyfile.in NEWS client/
>> configure.ac libtool* win/ yaz.spec.in LICENSE
>> README config/ debian/ m4/ windows.txt zoom/
>> Makefile TODO config.log doc/ src/
>> yaz-config* ztest/ *** 08:22 AM *** /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 ***
>> cd src sh: cd: src: No such file or directory *** 08:22 AM ***
>> /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 *** exit *** 08:22 AM ***
>> /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 *** sh --version GNU bash, version
>> 3.1.17(6)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software
>> Foundation, Inc. *** 08:22 AM *** /g/projects/yaz/yaz-2.1.26 ***
>> which sh /usr/bin/sh
>>>> It's a very strange thing.
>>>>> Hi,
> although I can't see it in your cygcheck output, I suppose you might
> have set the CDPATH environment variable. This results in the
> described effect of cd not working in the sh.exe, we had the problem
> here. Setting SHELL=/bin/bash in the Makefile also resolved the problem.
>> Hope this helps

Bingo! I unset CDPATH and now it works fine. Nice catch! I knew it had
to be something like that. I'm not going to set it, as it has caused me
confusion in the past anyway.
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