Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:05:17 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 583 ************************************************** Friday 15 July 2005 Number 583 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 \b versus \B : Franz Bakan" 2 Re: \b versus \B : Andreas Buening 3 Re: \b versus \B : Dave Yeo" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:40:19 +0200 (CEST) From: "Franz Bakan" Subject: \b versus \B Hi, just noticed a 'funny' thing: After running 'sh configure' from XSane-Package I looked into config.log and got following entries: .... PATH: G:\so PATH: g: in PATH: g:\usr in PATH: G:\usr\X11R6 in PATH: G:\XFree86 in PATH: g:\ODIN\SYSTEM32 PATH: G: tex in PATH: G:\wc inp PATH: G:\wc inw PATH: g:\emx in PATH: G:\BCOS2\BIN PATH: D:\TOOLS\NDFS .... seems that something handles \b in a wrong way. I don't know if it's the problem of configure or sh.exe sh.exe 163844 01.02.02 3:03 Franz **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:07:29 +0200 From: Andreas Buening Subject: Re: \b versus \B Franz Bakan wrote: > > Hi, > > just noticed a 'funny' thing: > > After running 'sh configure' from XSane-Package I looked into config.log > > and got following entries: [snip] > seems that something handles \b in a wrong way. > I don't know if it's the problem of configure or sh.exe Known ksh feature. You have to replace '\' by '/' before you can use 'echo' on $PATH. Bye, Andreas **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:22:41 -0800 From: "Dave Yeo" Subject: Re: \b versus \B On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:07:29 +0200, Andreas Buening wrote: >Known ksh feature. You have to replace '\' by '/' before you >can use 'echo' on $PATH. Try putting this in your config.site PATH=`cmd.exe /c "echo %PATH%" | sed -e 's at \\\\ at / at g'` Dave