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From: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 'xxx':not found - now I know.
Keywords: PATH
Message-ID: <2613@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 8 May 90 07:15:29 GMT
References: <375@cancol.oz>
Reply-To: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce.Evans)
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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In article <375@cancol.oz> eyal@cancol.oz (Eyal Lebedinsky) writes:
>I got a few replies which pointed me to the missing ':' at the start
>of my PATH. My PATH now says ":/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local" and all is fine.

Having the current directory in the path is not good, especially when it
is first. It will pick up random executables depending on what is in the
current directory.

The tools makefile is at fault for having 'build' instead of './build'.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@ditsyda.syd.dit.csiro.au