From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: (NBY) "execution failed" frequently while running shell scripts 3 Feb 1998 05:52:53 -0800 Message-ID: <19980203125801.11109.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: stephan AT computec DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com It sounds to me as if you've got text=binary with \r\n line endings woes. The mail archives abound with verbage on this one. What do your mounted filesystems look like? How did you unpack the archive? - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:00:21 +0100 (CET) >From: Stephan Niemz >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: "execution failed" frequently while running shell scripts > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I've just installed gnu-win32 B18 on a German NT4.0, read the FAQ and >everything, and am now trying to compile and install GNU autoconf. > > When running ./configure, NT pops up a message box saying "Die >Anwendung konnte nicht korrekt initialisiert werden (0xc0000043)." >("Can't initialize the program correctly" or something like that.) > > This never happens at the same place twice, sometimes the DOS-window >or that popup-window shows "grep ..." in the title, sometimes sed, sh, >gawk, tr, whatever. When trying to continue, the configure script almost >always writes zero-length Makefile(s), and it always says "not updating >unwritable cache ./config.cache". But that file exists and has a zero >length. > > I've tried to configure perl before, and experienced the same >problems. > >Am I missing something? Could anybody help me what's going wrong here? > >Regards, > > - Stephan. > >................................................................... > Stephan Niemz // Computec GmbH Software // Karlsruhe // Germany > PGP: http://www.computec.com/~stephan/pgp.txt // ID: 172BDC79 > fingerprint: C8 2E 6E 21 67 12 0C 9D 8F A7 F1 AC BC 55 01 D5 > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: 2.6.3ia >Charset: latin1 >Comment: For infos on this see http://www.pgpi.com/ > >iQCVAwUBNNYJu6aRpHsXK9x5AQGU5QQApSAZdhg4/MjZHx6gN9n7VXs2SNxjc02e >t89nKsqW2NjpXS7YYnCjicMLEA0UZCIi6YgkXkq779+CaXUpvE4LHXvIClWiQzin >mtvcJeQEcpYyryVcKH9BdFLDldnEoie0R0NZXCj/yF1iqr1NURTTgvxN0eeN/+Jz >5VHB0bbjfyI= >=ys93 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".