-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Marko Bozikovic on 2/23/2007 5:18 AM: > Hi all, > > I've just come across a strange problem. When I try to unpack a tar.gz archive > in cmd.exe, I get an error: > > tar (child): gzip: Cannot exec: No such file or directory > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > The command line I use is: > tar zxvf archive.tar.gz
It worked for me. > > When running the same command from bash, it works ok. > > I have found this mail: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00038.html > > but it's not applicable to my case, since I have no empty entries in the PATH. But you DO have an entry with spaces and parenthesis; perhaps cygwin's path-conversion routines are being confused by that? Can you compare 'echo $PATH' under bash vs. 'set PATH' under cmd? How about 'env | grep "^PATH"' under cmd? > > I have updated my packages (including tar and gzip), and the problem persists. > Attached is a cygcheck.out after the update. Nothing obvious jumped out at me, other than the fact that your PATH has a potentially problematic first entry, and that you use textmode mounts even for known binary directories such as /usr/bin, which is not recommended. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF4EHb84KuGfSFAYARAt0TAJ0d5ef5ScNXn49ziUzxJuHWMoilcgCghU81 /LJTOk2MAdDhC82kQkl7wno= =WQQI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
