Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <39F07B55.F7187D71@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:05:25 -0400 From: Charles Wilson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Pollock CC: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: new sh doesn't translate Unix-style paths for Perl? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FYI, Geoff Hart contribed a stub executable to assist in running ActiveState perl from cygwin. It is provided as-is, but it may help your situation: http://cygutils.netpedia.net/unversioned/perl-contrib/index.html --Chuck John Pollock wrote: > > >Does it work in bash? Was your old "sh" ash or bash? > > Our old "sh" was ash. To answer the other points, i understand that > ActiveState Perl may not be properly parsing the paths, but the old sh > appeared to do some sort of translation on its behalf. Switching to a > different version of Perl at this point is going to be difficult for us, so > i was hoping to be able to use the new sh without losing any of the previous > functionality. And i'm still not sure i understand why ./ invocations of > Perl scripts don't work with the new sh, as they did with the old. > > One of my motivations for trying to use the new sh is that we've been seeing > a lot of "Can't send signal 20" errors and make segmentation faults since we > upgraded from b20 to v1.1.4 (we're at the very latest version as of > yesterday), but we hadn't upgraded sh because of some of the issues like the > one above. I was hoping that upgrading sh (which is invoked by make) might > lessen some of these problems, but perhaps that wouldn't happen anyway. > > I appreciate all the feedback so far! Thanks all! > John > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com