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To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>,
	Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: sh(1) broken caching [was: Re: Broken sh(1)?] 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:34:44 +0100."
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:09:44 -0800
From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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> In <38565DEA.4487DF53@scc.nl>, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: 
> > Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:42:11 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > You set all those variables for the first make command, but not for the
> > > > > second.  What did you expect to happen?
> > > >
> > > > That make(1) would execute.
> > > 
> > > But what was the PATH set to _before_ you set it for the first execution
> > > of make?  That's what's important, surely?
> > 
> > It is. Try this:
> > 
> > scones% sh
> > % echo $PATH
> > /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:....
> > % hash -v
> > builtin hash
> > builtin echo
> > % which ls
> > /bin/ls
> > % hash -v
> > builtin hash
> > builtin echo
> > /usr/bin/which
> > % PATH=/foo:/bar:/bin ls
> 
> This line does *not* change $PATH for the next lines.
> 
> > <some output>
> > % hash -v
> > builtin hash
> > builtin echo
> > /usr/bin/which
> > /usr/sbin/ls
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Caching index based on temp. path!!!!
> > % ls
> > ls: not found
> 
> $PATH is still /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:....

You don't get it, do you?  So the path is /sbin:/bin:...

... where is ls, again?

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