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From: "Dan Holmsand" <dan@innehallsbolaget.com>
To: "John A. Turner" <john.turner@POBox.com>,
        "XEmacs on NT" <xemacs-nt@xemacs.org>,
        "Cygwin mailing list" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>,
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Subject: RE: shift: can't shift that many
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 20:29:45 +0200
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Actually, I think cygwin's sh is quite right - xemacs' installexe.sh tries
to shift three args where there's only two. Changing "shift 2" to just
"shift" in line 12 gets rid of the error message.

/dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xemacs-nt@xemacs.org [mailto:owner-xemacs-nt@xemacs.org]On
> Behalf Of John A. Turner
> Sent: den 13 juni 2000 14:03
> To: XEmacs on NT; Cygwin mailing list; bug-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: shift: can't shift that many
>
>
> "John A. Turner" wrote:
> >
> > I've successfully built a cygwin version of XEmacs 21.2.34
> >
> > however, during make install, I get lots of msgs from bash related
> > to the shift built-in - as in the subject:
> >
> > shift: can't shift that many
>
> never mind - I can't believe this, but I've been bitten by the
> "sh is really ash" feature in cygwin
>
> I've been using cygwin long enough to know better, but somehow
> after an update I forgot to fix that
>


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