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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
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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