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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:34:48 +0100
From: Andreas Madritsch <amadritsch AT datacomm DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: sh crashes when executing msgfmt
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
 > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:21:15PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
 >
 >>Andreas Madritsch wrote:
 >>
 >>>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
 >>>
 >>>>On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:03:59AM +0100, Andreas Madritsch wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>>>I have a configure script which uses sh.exe to execute msgfmt.exe.
 >>>>>Every time msgfmt.exe is executed from sh.exe, sh.exe crashes and
 >>>>>the configure script aborts. Could anybody help me please. Please
 >>>>>let me know, if you use some more informations.
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>>*hissing* ssssimpplehhhh testhhhh casehhhhh
 >>>>
 >>>>Corinna
 >>>>
 >>>
 >>>The following script crashes, when executed from the cygwin bash
 >>>shell:
 >>>
 >>>**********************************
 >>>#! /bin/sh
 >>>
 >>>msgfmt
 >>>**********************************
 >>>
 >>>Is it that, what you mean by simpple test case?
 >>
 >>Works for me. This looks like one of those strange problems that only 
appear
 >>on one machine.
 >
 >
 > Either that or it is one of those strange problems where people differ on
 > the meaning of a word.  For instance, I suspect that the above may be
 > "crashing" with an error like:
 >
 > msgfmt: not found

No, but msgfmt.exe of my djgpp installation has been taken, because 
msgfmt.exe of cygwin has not been found. I made sure, that msgfmt.exe
is located in c:/cygwin/usr/bin and that /usr/bin is in the path 
variable. An ls from the bash shell in /usr/bin results in a different 
files than I see from Windows Explorer.


Andreas


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