From: harbaugh AT nciaxp DOT ncifcrf DOT gov (Toni L. Harbaugh) Subject: Re: A little further with ncurses 4.1 and win95 8 Mar 1998 16:35:17 -0800 Message-ID: References: <6pJ$pfgKpfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Cc: "Toni L. Harbaugh" On 5 Mar 1998, Michael Hirmke wrote: > Hi Toni, > > >Folks: > > > >I figured what was causing the ncurses-4.1 configure to hang my > >system - it was bash. By FORCING configure to use ash, ncurses-4.1 > >completes the configure. But I also found it necessary to move > >bash.exe to /bin/sh.exe in order for make to work. > > Sorry to correct you, but with copying bash.exe to /bin/sh you forced > configure to use *bash*, not *ash* !! > Perhaps you started configure with "ash ./configure", but nevertheless > all subsequent calls to "sh" got bash from /bin/sh ! Sorry I was not clear, but I copied bash to to /bin/sh.exe *after* I did the configure. In fact, in successive builds (including groff), I did not use bash at all. I copied ash *back* to /bin/sh, and even ran ash interactively to prevent my computer from locking up. No amount of 'environmental reduction' appears to be enough to satisfy bash. BTW, Is there something wrong with the gnu-win32 list, or is it that there are an unusually large number of messages being processed since the release of b19? Lately I've had to wait four days to see each of my posts and other's responses to them. Are other people experiencing this? - 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".