From: mlevedahl AT fallschurch DOT esys DOT com (Mark Levedahl) Subject: Re: About the B20 configury/sh problems 12 Nov 1998 08:18:07 -0800 Message-ID: <36499661.CE89DFCB.cygnus.gnu-win32@fallschurch.esys.com> References: <3641AA3F DOT D5412FEC AT bigfoot DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Geoffrey Noer Cc: Stipe Tolj , creative1 AT bigfoot DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I find the sh in B20 cannot cd to a relative directory, and thus breaks many scripts: $ sh $ pwd /cygnus/cygwin-b20 $ ls H-i586-cygwin32 bin include Uninst.isu cygnus.bat share $ cd bin cd: can't cd to bin $ cd /cygnus/cygwin-b20/bin $ pwd /cygnus/cygwin-b20/bin $ cd .. cd: can't cd to .. $ cd /cygnus/cygwin-b20 $ pwd /cygnus/cygwin-b20 --mark levedahl Geoffrey Noer wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 01:17:45PM +0100, Stipe Tolj wrote: > > > > So the problem could either be in the cygwin1.dll too. > > I know there are problems with the cygwin1.dll included in B20. (I'm > almost positive that the configure problems people are seeing are due > to Cygwin bugs and not in sh.exe). The problems are especially > visible under Windows 9x which was the reason for the configuration > problem comment in the release notes for B20. > > We are working on making Cygwin happy under both Windows NT and 9x. > I will release 20.1 as soon as these problems are solved. > > This will also resolve the CYGWIN environment variable parsing bug > and possible a few other issues. > > Regards, > > -- > Geoffrey Noer > noer AT cygnus DOT 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". >  >  - 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".