Steve Kelem <skelem <at> elementcxi.com> writes: > > I'm having trouble running updatedb. I've tried findutils-4.2.27-1 and > findutils-4.3.0-1. > When I run updatedb manually, I get the message: > updatedb needs to be able to execute /usr/lib/lapack/find, but cannot. > The directory /usr/lib/lapack contains > cygblas.dll cyglapack.dll
That's because /etc/profile.d/lapack.sh is polluting the namespace with BINDIR=/usr/lib/lapack, and then updatedb fails to use its default of BINDIR=/usr/bin because BINDIR is already set. I don't know if findutils or lapack is at fault for this conflicting definition of what $BINDIR represents. I can probably work around it in the next findutils release, but wonder if the lapack maintainer should instead be more careful to not pollute the environment during its profile.d script. In the meantime, as a workaround, you can do 'unset $BINDIR' prior to running updatedb. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer -- 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/
