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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:35:43 -0600
From: Isaac Foraker <isaac DOT foraker AT xilinx DOT com>
Subject: Re: 1.5.11: execvp bug (XP)
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# ls -lL /usr/bin/perl.exe
ls: /usr/bin/perl.exe: No such file or directory

Some other possibly useful stuff:

# ls -lL /usr/bin/perl
-rwxr-x---+   1 isaacf   Users       11776 Aug 30 13:52 /usr/bin/perl

# ls -l /usr/bin/perl
lrwxrwxrwx    1 isaacf   Domain U       22 Sep  7 17:14 /usr/bin/perl -> 
/usr/bin/perl5.8.5.exe

# perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.5 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int
...

# uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 xcoisaacf20 1.5.11(0.116/4/2) 2004-09-04 23:17 i686 
unknown unknown Cygwin

Thanks,
IF

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>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
>  
>


-- 
Isaac W. Foraker <isaac DOT foraker AT xilinx DOT com>
Sr. Software Engineer, Xilinx, Longmont, CO 720.652.3918


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