Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E5EA098.3070208@datacomm.ch> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:34:48 +0100 From: Andreas Madritsch Reply-To: amadritsch@datacomm.ch, amadritsch@datacomm.ch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sh crashes when executing msgfmt References: <3E5D47DF.30106@datacomm.ch> <20030226074902.GB19302@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3E5E7B8E.6040309@datacomm.ch> <000b01c2dddc$fe9caea0$78d96f83@pomello> <20030226215359.GA16464@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:21:15PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: > >>Andreas Madritsch wrote: >> >>>Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>>>On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:03:59AM +0100, Andreas Madritsch wrote: >>>> >>>>>I have a configure script which uses sh.exe to execute msgfmt.exe. >>>>>Every time msgfmt.exe is executed from sh.exe, sh.exe crashes and >>>>>the configure script aborts. Could anybody help me please. Please >>>>>let me know, if you use some more informations. >>>> >>>> >>>>*hissing* ssssimpplehhhh testhhhh casehhhhh >>>> >>>>Corinna >>>> >>> >>>The following script crashes, when executed from the cygwin bash >>>shell: >>> >>>********************************** >>>#! /bin/sh >>> >>>msgfmt >>>********************************** >>> >>>Is it that, what you mean by simpple test case? >> >>Works for me. This looks like one of those strange problems that only appear >>on one machine. > > > Either that or it is one of those strange problems where people differ on > the meaning of a word. For instance, I suspect that the above may be > "crashing" with an error like: > > msgfmt: not found No, but msgfmt.exe of my djgpp installation has been taken, because msgfmt.exe of cygwin has not been found. I made sure, that msgfmt.exe is located in c:/cygwin/usr/bin and that /usr/bin is in the path variable. An ls from the bash shell in /usr/bin results in a different files than I see from Windows Explorer. Andreas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/