Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg,net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Apparent bug in 'make': hyphen treated as delimiter in $PATH Message-ID: <367@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 23:56:40 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.367 Posted: Thu Jan 17 23:56:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 01:32:31 EST References: <286@iham1.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 11 Xref: watmath net.bugs.usg:161 net.bugs.4bsd:1328 > (A mention of the SVR2's "make" having a version of "execvp" which treats > '-' as well as ':' as separators in $PATH, which causes nasty problems > with directories whose names contain hyphens) This problem also exists in the 4.2BSD version of "execvp" in the standard C library. I suspect it's a holdover from some old (pre-V7) system which used '-' instead of ':' as a separator, and hasn't been completely expunged from the system yet. Beware - it may still be hiding somewhere... Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy