Please educate me

[leanne]

Medland, Bill wrote:

>Can anyone explain what is going on here please; this is obviously an area
>of bash etc I don't understand.
>
>This morning I was doing a fresh install on a totally clean machine from the
>Wine-20020411 tarball under Redhat 7.1.
>
>All went reasonable well until I saw a "..<something not write> .." go
>flashing past as I ran wineinstall and later on the regapi failed because it
>couldn't find libntdll.dll.so.  OK so I guess it was the ldconfig that
>failed!!
>
sorry and do not know I could help.
when I got "libntdll.dll.so no such file..."
I add a  line "/usr/local/lib" in /etc/ld.so.conf and then run "ldconfig"
(I guess u install in the default path /usr/local/...)

>
>
>So I thought "lets fix it".  Yes; in the last fix to wineinstall where we
>went with using "su root" instead the ldconfig was hard-coded (and wasn't on
>the path for simply "su root").  So I followed up on the machine I normally
>use and started messing about with $ac_cv_path_LDCONFIG.  I got that
>working, consistant on hand-editing the config.cache to change "true" to
>"/sbin/ldconfig".
>
>So the remaining thing was to get the cache entry generated correctly.  This
>is where the problem is.  (I still don't understand why it should get set
>either to the name of an executable or to the value "true"; I dislike
>variables holding dissimilar types).  Anyway I was watching the loop so see
>why it wasn't finding the /sbin/ldconfig and I noticed that 
>
>for ac_dir in /sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH
>
>was splitting as 
>1. /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
>2. /bin
>3. /usr/bin
>etc.
>
>Now, I know I can force it to work by changing the for loop to 
>for ac_dir in /sbin /usr/sbin $PATH
>
>However the original form used to work (I guess, since the cache is correct
>on my other machine) so I'd rather know why it isn't working currently and
>fix that
>
>Can anyone explain why it isn't splitting the for the way we want it to
>
>TIA
>
>Bill
>