Re: Why does the make have error?

From	Unknown <dog@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Why does the make have error?
Date	2015-03-16 18:13 +0000
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 03:46:32 +0000, Robert Riches wrote:

> On 2015-03-09, Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> writes:
>>> Richard Kettlewell conveyed the following to comp.os.linux.misc...
>>>> fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>>  I am still new to Linux. I have check /bin folder. Both sed and
>>>>>  uname are there. But the following error message has the extra /sh
>>>>>  after /bin.
>>>> 
>>>> If sed is present but make can???t find it then /bin must not be on
>>>> your path.  Since the default path generally does include it, I would
>>>> guess that it???s been changed somehow.
>>>
>>> That, or /bin/sed has somehow been set up with incorrect permissions.
>>
>> No; that would yield ???Permission denied???, not ???not found???.
> 
> If the shell (or perhaps make) is using $PATH to find executables, and
> if /bin/sed should be executable but is not, then wouldn't the shell (or
> perhaps make) report that it could not find an executable 'sed' in
> $PATH?

See what's there by:
which sed
ls -l `which sed`
whoami

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Why does the make have error? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-03-09 08:31 -0700
  Re: Why does the make have error? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2015-03-09 17:57 +0200
  Re: Why does the make have error? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-03-09 16:40 +0000
  Re: Why does the make have error? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-03-09 17:14 +0000
    Re: Why does the make have error? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-03-09 18:28 +0100
      Re: Why does the make have error? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-03-09 19:21 +0000
        Re: Why does the make have error? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-03-09 19:23 -0700
        Re: Why does the make have error? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2015-03-10 03:46 +0000
          Re: Why does the make have error? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-03-10 04:15 +0000
          Re: Why does the make have error? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-03-10 08:48 +0000
          Re: Why does the make have error? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-03-16 18:13 +0000

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