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RE: "cd" in bash script not being executed
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:32:46 +0100
- Subject: RE: "cd" in bash script not being executed
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Mikael Åsberg
> Sent: 08 July 2004 17:54
> #!/bin/bash
> export CVS_RSH="ssh"
> cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
> cd emacs/nt/
> configure.bat --with-msvc
> mv ../lisp/url/vc-dav.el ../lisp/url/no.vc-dav.el.no
> nmake bootstrap
> nmake install
>
> The cd emacs/nt/ command isn't executed so the commands
> following it fails.
Wrong. The cd is executed. But since you haven't got . in your $PATH,
the configure.bat doesn't run. You want to prefix the line that invokes it
with the current-directory-path, like so:
> ./configure.bat --with-msvc
To solve problems like this yourself, you'd generally want to try
instrumenting your script with some diagnostic printouts, like this:
> cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
> pwd ; ls
> cd emacs/nt/ ; pwd ; ls
> pwd ; ls
> pwd ; configure.bat --with-msvc
> mv ../lisp/url/vc-dav.el ../lisp/url/no.vc-dav.el.no
...which would have shown you at once that the cd instruction did indeed
work.
cheers,
DaveK
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