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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:48:47 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.11: execvp bug (XP)
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 05:15:27PM -0600, 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".

What does

ls -lL /usr/bin/perl.exe 

show?

cgf

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