Problem with sh/bash and snapshot cygwin1-20050825.dll
Volker Quetschke
quetschke@scytek.de
Fri Aug 26 05:02:00 GMT 2005
Brian Dessent wrote:
> Volker Quetschke wrote:
>
>>#! /bin/sh
>>ANT_HOME="/cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.6.5/bin/.."
>>ANT_HOME=`cd "$ANT_HOME" && pwd`
>>[...]
>>If I change the first line to:
>>#! /bin/bash
>>it surprisingly works with both snapshots.
>
>
> Does the 'bin' subdirectory exist?
Yes.
$ ll /cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.6.5/ | grep bin
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Administratoren none 0 Jul 4 01:07 bin/
> If not then you're probably running
> into an aspect of <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01097.html>.
>
> Perhaps a better way to do this would be:
>
> ANT_HOME=`readlink -m "$ANT_HOME"`
Indeed, but that's not my call. I found this problem when trying
to build OpenPffice.org with the newest cygwin snapshot. The
failing snippet is from apache-ant-1.6.5/bin/ant and triggered
by a configure check that tests if ant exists.
Volker
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