Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <3756BCEA.EA63ABB4@lbin.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:35:38 -0700 From: Ian Zimmerman Organization: Lightbinders, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: various 'cywin1.dll' tested with PERL's 'Configure' script. References: <37561EEE DOT CD42A54D AT kiwi DOT iamp DOT tohoku DOT ac DOT jp> <19990603131959 DOT A26063 AT ba DOT best DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Glenn Spell wrote: > > The following may not be of any help for the perl configure problem. > I'm writing only about the ash heredoc problem. > > On Jun 03 1999 at 07:21AM +0000, Samy Alex ZAIMI wrote: > > > Since I received no answers, I had to dig a bit. I found out that > > one of the problems is related to the way (a)sh.exe handles so > > called 'here documents'. The version of 'sh.exe' I have is dated > > [...] May be it is too old, is there a new ash arround ? > > The ash distributed with Cygwin is from Debian Linux with some local > changes by Cygnus. Last year I looked around but did not find a > better alternative. I incorporated some Debian patches while working > on the infamous "Win95 'make' bug" but it didn't seem to help. > > > Lately, Glenn Spell posted (1999/05/03/13:02:39, Heredocs with ash > > on Win95) that such problems disappeared when he used the 19990502 > > cygwin1.dll. Well, he didn't receive many answers either (or he > > did but it was privately). Why do we need ash anyway - what's the trouble with using just bash as sh? I tried using ash several times on my Linux boot floppies to save space, but I always concluded it wasn't worth the trouble, bash is just so much better even for noninteractive use. Instead I saved space by not including any executables that had a corresponding bash built-in, and rewriting several others as scripts. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com