Thanks. Re: Broken Bash 2.05? a configure can't find /bin/sh

[Dennis Wilson]

The explanation is great. I can work around this. I just thought I had done
something wrong on my
upgrade and was preparing to reinstall.

Cygwin is a GREAT way for a unix person to get along with windows. I hope
you guys can continue.

Many thanks again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Troy Noble" <troy.noble@channelpoint.com>
To: "'Dennis Wilson'" <lincwils@teleport.com>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:59 AM
Subject: RE: Broken Bash 2.05? a configure can't find /bin/sh


> bash doesn't get installed as /bin/sh, it gets installed as /bin/bash.
>
> The "ash" package (a Bourne shell clone) is the one that actually gets
> installed as /bin/sh.  So if you didn't install ash*.tar.gz, you've
> likely not got a /bin/sh.
>
> What we've done to get around this is install the "bash" package, but
> not the "ash" package, and then we:
>
> cp -p /bin/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe
>
> and that ensures that we are always running bash and that /bin/sh
> is always there.  We've standardized on BASH for our purposes here,
> so this is acceptable practice for our environment.
>
> YMMV.
>
> Troy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Wilson [ mailto:lincwils@teleport.com ]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:08 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Broken Bash 2.05? a configure can't find /bin/sh
>
>
> I ungraded my cygwin on my Win2k system. It now can't find sh.
> I did not do anything but run the setup and accept the packages that
needed
> to be upgraded.
>
> I was working on building tcl and when I went back into the directory to
run
> the configure script I got the following message.
>
> $ ./configure --enable-gcc
> bin/bash .configure: bad interpreter: no such file or directory.
>
> What appears to be going on is that the pathing has changed and /bin/sh is
> no longer valid.
> Any ideas??
>
>
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