Rene, thanks for the reply! The GNU libtool is a generic library support script and I'm using CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25. The 'which' command you suggested has given me some great insight. Here's what I'm seeing...
In TopDir: 1) which libtool --> /usr/bin/libtool 2) which ./libtool --> /usr/myhome/TopDir/libtool In SubDir: 3) which ../libtool --> /usr/myhome/TopDir/libtool The first 'which' works while the second and third 'which' do not. It appears the libtool that comes with cygwin in /usr/bin/ works as expected, but the libtool that came with the source code in /usr/myhome/TopDir/ does not. I will try to compare the two files to see what is different. Thanks again for the help. On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:38 PM, René Berber <r.ber...@computer.org> wrote: > Fabricio Guzman wrote: > >> This problem seems simple yet I've spent the last two days researching >> and have been unsuccessful. >> >> I have a directory, "TopDir", with one subdirectory "SubDir". The >> "TopDir" has a program called "libtool." If I'm in "TopDir" the >> command "libtool --help" works as expected (I see the help text). >> However, if I'm in "SubDir" and type the command "../libtool --help", >> nothing shows up. I don't see any text and the shell simply returns >> to a prompt. Am I not allowed to run programs residing in a different >> directory? > > Directories have nothing to do with what you are seeing. > > ../libtool is equivalent only to ./libtool on the parent directory, what > you did was execute the first libtool found on the PATH, to see which > one is it try "which libtool". > > Of course if PATH contains . before any other directory then things > would work as you expect, except that the libtool you are testing still > doesn't output anything, is that libtool compiled to be a windows app? > many windows console applications don't interact well with Cygwin, > output is buffered and shows much later than expected, or doesn't show, > windows pipes don't connect, etc. and things changed even more if you > are using Cygwin 1.7 (works worse now). > -- > R.Berber > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
