Re: tar/gzip outside of bash problem

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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According to Marko Bozikovic on 2/23/2007 5:18 AM:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just come across a strange problem. When I try to unpack a tar.gz archive
> in cmd.exe, I get an error:
> 
> tar (child): gzip: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
> tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> The command line I use is:
> tar zxvf archive.tar.gz

It worked for me.

> 
> When running the same command from bash, it works ok.
> 
> I have found this mail:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00038.html
> 
> but it's not applicable to my case, since I have no empty entries in the PATH.

But you DO have an entry with spaces and parenthesis; perhaps cygwin's
path-conversion routines are being confused by that?  Can you compare
'echo $PATH' under bash vs. 'set PATH' under cmd?  How about 'env | grep
"^PATH"' under cmd?

> 
> I have updated my packages (including tar and gzip), and the problem persists.
> Attached is a cygcheck.out after the update.

Nothing obvious jumped out at me, other than the fact that your PATH has a
potentially problematic first entry, and that you use textmode mounts even
for known binary directories such as /usr/bin, which is not recommended.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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