1.5.21-2 - Problems with make and/or sh

Wed Aug 23 15:42:00 GMT 2006

On 23 August 2006 15:31, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>> 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.

 Ah, it's because of the Bash POSIX mode:
6.11 Bash POSIX Mode
====================
 [ ... ]
 When invoked as `sh', Bash enters POSIX mode after reading the
startup files.
 [ ... ]
19. If `CDPATH' is set, the `cd' builtin will not implicitly append
 the current directory to it. This means that `cd' will fail if no
 valid directory name can be constructed from any of the entries in
 `$CDPATH', even if the a directory with the same name as the name
 given as an argument to `cd' exists in the current directory.
 That's why it didn't work even though sh == bash under cygwin and it works
fine in bash.
 cheers,
 DaveK
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