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From: rcp@perseus.sw.mcc.com (Rob Pettengill)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Message "foo: is a directory" with "foo" execuatable on path and "foo" subdir
Message-ID: <2465@perseus.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 12 Jun 89 21:38:22 GMT
References: <8906121841.AA11648@aurel.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: rcp@perseus.sw.mcc.com (Rob Pettengill)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: MCC Software Technology Program
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In article <8906121841.AA11648@aurel.caltech.edu> bfox@ai.mit.edu writes:
;
;   Posted-Date: 12 Jun 89 16:14:01 GMT
;   Date: 12 Jun 89 16:14:01 GMT
;   From: milano!perseus!rcp@cs.utexas.edu  (Rob Pettengill)
;   Organization: MCC Software Technology Program
;   Sender: bug-bash-request@prep.ai.mit.edu
;
;   Running SunOS 3.5 and bash 0.99 ...
;
;   I first found this problem with "mail" (I have a directory called
;   "mail").  It appears that for any command called "foo" on my path, if
;   I have a subdirectory called "foo", then I get the message "foo": is a
;   directory. 
;
;   ...
;
;   ;rob
;
;This is a bug from versions earlier than .95.  Are you sure you are
;using .99?  I cannot recreate this bug.
;
;Brian Fox

I just ftped this last week and built it on the sun 3.  I only made
simple pathname changes in the makefile before building it.  As you can see
the version is 0.99

perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 88=> bash -version
GNU bash, version 0.99
perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 1=> which gcc
/usr/local/bin/gcc
perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 2=> mkdir gcc
perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 3=> gcc
gcc: is a directory
perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 4=> rmdir gcc
perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 5=> gcc
gcc: No source or object files specified.

;rob