From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 23 10:48:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD9337B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5C543E42 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7NHmDmC087532 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:48:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7NHmDlh087531; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:48:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:48:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200208231748.g7NHmDlh087531@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports problems -- FIXED In-Reply-To: <441y8pzf43.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.6-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Oliver Fromme writes: > > The $PATH is a sequence of dirctory names (separated by > > colons). A directory name is just that -- the file name > > of a directory. Such a name _never_ ends with a slash, > > because the slash is used to separate components of a > > path. > > That was my assumption, but I've been unsuccessful in trying to back > it up with hard facts. I have checked a wide range of reference > materials (aside from POSIX itself, to which I have no access), and > can't find anything to say this explicitly. From our sh(1) manpage, subsection "Path Search": 2. The shell searches each entry in PATH in turn for the command. The value of the PATH variable should be a series of entries separated by colons. Each entry consists of a directory name. It does not say "... or a directory name followed by a slash". Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message