Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/07/06/17:15:29
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 9:24 PM
> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Re: Why can't I run perl scripts after cd to /_/d i.e. d:
>
>
> It certainly sounds like this is not a cygwin version of perl
> and so it
> does not understand cygwin paths.
>
> cgf
Indeed it is not a cygwin version of perl. But I do not understand what you
mean
"it does not understand cygwin paths". The path it cannot seem to find is
the path
to the executable, on the first line of the script, i.e. #/usr/bin/perl
Is this what you mean? But why can't it find that?
One of the things I like about Perl is that the identical scripts can be run
on both NT and Unix, provided I have a copy of the the perl program in the
same place, i.e.
/usr/bin/perl
Are you saying that if I am in a cygwin bash shell, and happen to be on a
drive other than c:, my perl scripts will not work? If this is really true
I hope there
is a workaround. Otherwise this is a showstopper problem for me.
Or am I misunderstanding?
The following shows that even running in a DOS box and in D: the perl script
works correctly, provided I have associated the extension .pl with the Perl
program.
C:\usr\home\mybin>cat testperl.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "hello from testperl\n";
C:\usr\home\mybin>assoc .pl
.pl=Perl
C:\usr\home\mybin>d:
D:\>testperl.pl
hello from testperl
Thanks,
Steve
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:18:58PM -0400, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
> >The following shows that when I am on d: I cannot run a perl
> script.
> >I get the error message "No such file or directory". It
> seems like it
> >cannot find the perl interpreter executable.
> >But running a similar bash script does work.
> >I changed the value of cygdrive to /_ at one point using
> mount, and it is
> >remembered in my registry with
> >name: cygdrive prefix
> >data: "/_".
> >Is this (part of) the problem.
> >I changed from /cygdrive because that was so tedious to type
> each time I
> >need to work on another hard disk.
> >
> >1014/_/d/_mysetup> type bash
> >bash is /usr/bin/bash
> >1015/_/d/_mysetup> echo > /usr/home/mybin/testbash
> >1016/_/d/_mysetup> cat > /usr/home/mybin/testbash
> >#!/usr/bin/bash
> >echo hello from testbash
> >1017/_/d/_mysetup> /usr/home/mybin/testbash
> >hello from testbash
> >1018/_/d/_mysetup> cat > /usr/home/mybin/testperl
> >#!/usr/bin/perl
> >print "hello from testperl\n";
> >1019/_/d/_mysetup> /usr/home/mybin/testperl
> >Can't open perl script "/usr/home/mybin/testperl": No such
> file or directory
> >1020/_/d/_mysetup> ls -l /usr/bin/perl
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 administ Administ 20480 Mar 24 11:37 /usr/bin/perl*
> >1021/_/d/_mysetup> ls -l /usr/bin/perl.exe
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 administ Administ 20480 Mar 24 11:37
> /usr/bin/perl.exe*
> >1022/_/d/_mysetup> ls -l /usr/bin/bash
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 administ Administ 466944 Jun 1 18:50 /usr/bin/bash*
> >1023/_/d/_mysetup> ls -l /usr/bin/bash.exe
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 administ Administ 466944 Jun 1 18:50
> /usr/bin/bash.exe*
> >1024/_/d/_mysetup> mount
> >Device Directory Type Flags
> >c:\bin /usr/bin user binmode
> >c:\lib /usr/lib user binmode
> >d: /d user textmode
> >f: /f user textmode
> >c: / user binmode
> >e: /e user textmode
> >1025/_/d/_mysetup> cd /
> >1026/> /usr/home/mybin/testperl
> >hello from testperl
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Steve
> >--
> >Steven Tolkin steve DOT tolkin AT fmr DOT com 617-563-0516
> >Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. R24D Boston MA 02109
> >There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me,
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