Re: make fails to change directory.

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:07:10PM +0300, Gadi Oron wrote:
>Hi Dave,
>
>I made some more tests and I've found the root cause: in fact
>
>/bin/sh -c "cd <directory>"
>
>will not work for a directory in $pwd unless it has a leading "./"
>
>Only bash - when disguised as sh - has this issue, ash for example
>does not behave like this.
>
>Do you have an idea how to bypass this?

You've got a number of these:

Found: c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\rm.exe
Warning: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe hides c:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\rm.exe

in your cygcheck output.  I wonder if you're running a non-cygwin version
of sh (or make) somehow.

ls -l `which make`
ls -l `which sh`

cgf

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