On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:04:01AM -0700, lin q wrote: >Hi, > I have the latest cygwin installed on WinXP SP1. It works fine in general >until I try to run some program today. > > It is really weired, the program requiring setting up some environment >viriables, I guess iniside its code it tries to find some data based on >that variable setting. Anyway, I do it something like this in my script, > >export PROG_ENV=/cygdrive/c/prog >export PATH=$PROG_ENV/bin/nt:$PATH > >echo $PATH >$PROG_ENV/bin/nt/prog.exe > > > Then I source this script in cygwin, but I get such error, > >The PROG_ENV directory "/cygdrive/c/prog" does not exist. >The PROG_ENV environment variable does not point to any directories. >Current setting is PROG_ENV="/cygdrive/c/prog". > > But if I `ls $PROG_ENV`, the directory is there! And `cd $PROG_ENV` works >also.
Sounds like prog.exe isn't a cygwin program and doesn't understand /cygdrive style paths. > I wonder why the valid cygwin can not be taken. > > Another thing I find is if I change the BASH script to DOS script and run >it directly from dos, then everything is ok, namingly here is the DOS scipt, > >set PROG_ENV=c:\prog >set PATH=%PROG_ENV%\bin\nt;%PATH% > >%PROG_ENV%\bin\nt\prog.exe > > Any suggestion? Yep. That pretty much clinches it. Don't use cygdrive with pure windows programs. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
