Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/12/03/04:11:45
Hi Henri,
I wanted to give you the URL for the coolview updates. It is
http://www.lexa.ru/sos; this sight is managed by Sergey Okhapkin.
As for your problem; I suspect the build of perl that you have. You
might want to check the mail archives at
http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32
Goodluck,
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PS: Hope you don't mind that I also posted this to the list.
>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 13:43:42 +0100
>From: periat AT ens DOT ascom DOT ch (Periat Henri)
>To: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com
>Subject: Re: Problems with 'bash'
>
>Hi Earnie
>
>> >> >
>> >> >1. Why does perl -e 'print "Hello world\n";' doesn't work ?
>> >> > I't works fine on in my 'bash' on my UNIX system.
>> >> > I also know that a workaround exists with 'qq', thanks to
Perl,
>> but
>> >> > this is just a simple example. It seems that 'bash' hates '"'.
>> >> >
>>
>> I just tried the perl example you gave using virgin b18 and the perl
>> package I downloaded from the gnu mirrors and built with the
gnu-win32
>> gcc package and it worked just fine.
>
>I use the binary package of b18 and the Perl binary package
>perl5.00402-bindist04-bc. The error message i get is very strange:
>Can't locate method "hello" via package "world" at -e line 1.
>
>But it works fine from DOS command line.
>
>>
>> I don't recall that perl comes with the cdk.exe package.
>>
>> >> >
>> >> >2. The 'make' can't handle DOS paths like 'C:/foo' in 'VPATH'
>> >> > In the FAQ i found the workaround for this problem: '//C/foo'.
>> >> > But programs i call from the Makefile can't deal with such
paths.
>> >> > Who can i make things like this working:
>> >> >
>> >> > %.o: %.c
>> >> > program $<
>> >> >
>>
>> Are your directory mounts in text=binary mode? Do you have the
coolview
>> updates from Sergey? Are you sure that the make you are executing is
>> the one from gnu-win32? To find out which program is being executed
>> from bash do "type -all make".
>
>- Perl and all the gnu tools reside in 'C:/usr' and this directory is
mounted
> with 'mount -b C:/usr /usr'.
>
>- No i don't have any updates. What are these for and where do i get
them ?
>
>- Yes i'm sure. 'make -v' shows version 3.75, but mention nothing about
> cygnus.
>
>- 'bash%type -all make' tells me, that it found make in /usr/local/bin.
> Where i expect it.
>
>- Maybe i was not precise enough what kind o programs i meant: no gnu
programs,
> like a cross compiler from CAD-UL
>
>
>Thanks a lot for your help so far
>Henri
>
>
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