perl/cygwin and system calls
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Mon Mar 5 12:37:00 GMT 2001
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:28:31PM -0500, Robinow, David wrote:
>> From: Perakis, John [ mailto:JPerakis@crossbeamsys.com ]
>> Subject: perl/cygwin and system calls
>> ... I'm trying to use a system call to kick off my
>> make ie system("//c/cygwin/bin/make all"). This piece is failing, I
>> believe, because the system call is going out and using an NT
>> environment not a Cygwin env. Does anyone know how I can get this to
>> what I want.
The description of "failing" does not really provide enough information
to debug the problem.
I assume, however, that if you avoid using a Cygwin path in the system
command, things will work better:
system("c:/cygwin/bin/make all")
It sounds like you're using a non-cygwin version of perl.
cgf
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