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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:56:39 +0200
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <blytkerchan AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Postinstall hangs with bash
Message-ID: <20031001165639.GE11769@linux_rln.harvest>
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:18:37AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote:
> > > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe
> > Don't do that.
> Umm, aside from being unusual and drastic, why not?  bash should be fully
> sh-compatible -- hey, it's used on Linux instead of sh...
Precicely because it is unusual and drastic.

> > > With this setting cygpath hangs in myPostinstall.sh:
> > >
> > > ROOT=$(cygpath -w /)
> > >
> > > It is interesting.
> > >
> > > Using sh it is ok.
> > $ ROOT=$(cygpath -w /)
> > $ echo $ROOT
> > D:\cygwin
> >
> > WFM
> > rlc
> 
> Ronald,
> 
> Did you try it in a postinstall script?
I have now = FWM.

rlc

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