[Coco] Build NitrOS9 on Windows, step by step

[Tormod Volden]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 21, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If "sort" fails it can be because the "locale" has not been
>> initialized, which is probably done by the msys postinstall in
>> Aaron's fine manual.
>
> Well, "sort" is there and runs... It was just not finding commands like "echo" -- giving errors that said "./echo: cannot execute binary file". Looks like more of a PATH thing.

Yes, my guess was wild, and after looking at the postinst, it seems
wrong as well.

This is the msys current-dir-in-path illness. It will try to execute
the os9 module called echo... The module should not have execution
rights on the build filesystem. Does it? If not it is even more
awkward.

Tormod