Re: [Mingw-users] sometimes msys shell won't read arguments to mycommands

[alex <al...@zo...>]

thanks, that was driving me nuts! :)

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 05:46:18PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> alex wrote:
> 
> > $ wget http://blah
> > wget: missing URL
> > Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
> > 
> > $ gcc hi.c
> > gcc.exe: no input files
> > 
> > any advice?
> 
> I'm pretty sure this is a symptom of using a version of MSYS prior to
> 1.11 and putting non-MSYS binaries in the MSYS /bin directory.  In the
> above example, neither wget nor gcc are MSYS binaries, so they should be
> in /mingw/bin or some other place in the PATH, but not /bin.  In general
> everything you unpack should go under /mingw, unless you know that it's
> part of MSYS.
> 
> With 1.11 and later I think the method was changed to inspect the binary
> itself rather than assuming everything in /bin is a MSYS binary.
> 
> Brian
> 
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