Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

Jason Tishler jason at tishler.net
Tue Feb 8 12:55:15 EST 2005


Dean,

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:01:11AM -0800, Dean N. Williams wrote:
> $ rebaseall
> /usr/bin/rebaseall: line 70: [: too many arguments
> /usr/bin/rebaseall: line 75: [: too many arguments
> /usr/bin/rebaseall: line 94: $TmpFile: ambiguous redirect
> cannot read /cygdrive/c/Documents
> 
> On my laptop installation everything works just fine. What is the
> difference?

The TMP and/or TEMP environment variables have at least two spaces in
them.

The easiest workaround is to execute rebaseall like the following:

    $ TMP=/tmp rebaseall

Long term I will change rebaseall to deal better with spaces in shell
variables.

Jason

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