Re: [Mingw-users] Can't CD to a directory?

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting "Redding, Matthew" <Mat...@dp...>:

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> Hi All,
>
> Just a bit more information.
>
>
> I think it is actually
> one of these two steps on the MSYS web page installation instructions
> that is causing
> cd to no work (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys):
>

What is the command you're giving in MSYS?  Be sure to use / and not \ 
for the directory separator.

> *	Install MSYS DTK 1.0
> <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe>  in
> C:\msys\1.0.
>

DTK == Developer Tool Kit.

On the SF project FRS page 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 you will 
find it named "MSYS Supplementary Tools".  In it you'll find a 
"Technology Preview: Tools for MSYS-1.0.11" release with more current 
versions of the tools contained within it.

> *	Install MSYS Core 1.0.11
> <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysCORE-1.0.11-2007.01.19-1.tar
> .bz2> . It is an archive. Untar it in C:\msys\1.0.
>

On the SF project FRS page as above you will find "MSYS Base System" 
with a release of "Technology Preview: MSYS-1.0.11".  In it are more 
recent versions of the individual packages used to create MSYS.  The 
CORE MSYS package is delivered as msysCORE and contains the Minimal 
SYStem.  The next version is 1.0.11 and the most current released date 
of the preview is 20080826.  The bad thing about giving a specific file 
in the WIKI is that the WIKI data becomes outdated.

>
> Any ideas:
>
> $ls
> autoconf-2.63               coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar
> autoconf-2.63.tar.gz        info
> automake-1.0                libtool-2.2.tar.gz
> automake-1.0.tar.gz         m4-1.4.7-MSYS.tar
> bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar  man
> bin                         reddinm
> coreutils-5.97              usr
>
> reddinm@TBADKI184 ~
> $ cd autoconf-2.63
> sh: cd: autoconf-2.63: No such file or directory
>
>
> Hopefully this is a simple oversight on my part. I can't find anything
> in the archive for the group however.
>

Strange.  What does ``ls -la'' show?

Does ``cd /autoconf-2.63'' behave better?

What is the output of ``set''?

>
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