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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:34:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Isaac Foraker <isaac DOT foraker AT xilinx DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.11: execvp bug (XP)
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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Isaac Foraker wrote:

> Yes, the perl soft link works from the command line.  Here's my test
> case that fails.
>
> <foo.pl>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> print "Success.\n"
> </foo.pl>
>
> <Makefile>
> default:
>        perl foo.pl
> </Makefile>
>
> #ls -l /usr/bin/perl
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 isaacf   Domain U       24 Sep  7 12:44 /usr/bin/perl ->
> /usr/bin/perl5.8.5.exe
>
> #gmake
   ^^^^^
> perl foo.pl
> gmake: execvp: perl: Permission denied
> gmake: *** [default] Error 127
  ^^^^^
> #perl foo.pl
> Success.
>
> You may also need to "rm /usr/bin/perl.exe" before you can "ln -s
> /usr/bin/perl5.8.5.exe /usr/bin/perl".

According to
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fgmake>, there is
no "gmake" in the Cygwin distribution.  Is "gmake" a Windows executable,
by any chance?  If so, the behavior is expected -- Windows programs don't
understand Cygwin symlinks.

Why not use Cygwin make?
	Igor
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