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Re: (NBY) "execution failed" frequently while running shell scripts


It sounds to me as if you've got text=binary with \r\n line endings 
woes.  The mail archives abound with verbage on this one.  What do your 
mounted filesystems look like?  How did you unpack the archive?

-        \\||//
---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o----
-earnie_boyd@hotmail.com-
------ooo0O--O0ooo-------

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>Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:00:21 +0100 (CET)
>From: Stephan Niemz <stephan@computec.com>
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: "execution failed" frequently while running shell scripts
>
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>
>    I've just installed gnu-win32 B18 on a German NT4.0, read the FAQ 
and
>everything, and am now trying to compile and install GNU autoconf.
>
>    When running ./configure, NT pops up a message box saying "Die
>Anwendung konnte nicht korrekt initialisiert werden (0xc0000043)." 
>("Can't initialize the program correctly" or something like that.) 
>
>    This never happens at the same place twice, sometimes the 
DOS-window
>or that popup-window shows "grep ..." in the title, sometimes sed, sh,
>gawk, tr, whatever.  When trying to continue, the configure script 
almost
>always writes zero-length Makefile(s), and it always says "not updating
>unwritable cache ./config.cache".  But that file exists and has a zero
>length. 
>
>    I've tried to configure perl before, and experienced the same
>problems.
>
>Am I missing something?  Could anybody help me what's going wrong here?
>
>Regards,
>
>    - Stephan.
>
>...................................................................
>  Stephan Niemz // Computec GmbH Software // Karlsruhe // Germany
>   PGP: http://www.computec.com/~stephan/pgp.txt // ID: 172BDC79
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