[uClibc] Why do I have to add ./ to execute programs

John Gordon jgordon at instant802.com
Mon Jun 21 02:16:30 UTC 2004


Hello,

Do you have '.' in your PATH?

HTH,
John...


Hoffknecht wrote:

> Pretty much all programs require that I add ./ in front of the 
> executable in the current directory, such as ./gdb . Why is that ? The 
> shell commands don't require it ....
> Marc
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