Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <430EA2FB.4080003@scytek.de> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:04:59 -0400 From: Volker Quetschke User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with sh/bash and snapshot cygwin1-20050825.dll References: <430E9B0B DOT 8040303 AT scytek DOT de> <430EA16A DOT D8064A97 AT dessent DOT net> In-Reply-To: <430EA16A.D8064A97@dessent.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5707600823096321B3099248" X-IsSubscribed: yes --------------enig5707600823096321B3099248 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brian Dessent wrote: > Volker Quetschke wrote: > >>#! /bin/sh >>ANT_HOME="/cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.6.5/bin/.." >>ANT_HOME=`cd "$ANT_HOME" && pwd` >>[...] >>If I change the first line to: >>#! /bin/bash >>it surprisingly works with both snapshots. > > > Does the 'bin' subdirectory exist? Yes. $ ll /cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.6.5/ | grep bin drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Administratoren none 0 Jul 4 01:07 bin/ > If not then you're probably running > into an aspect of . > > Perhaps a better way to do this would be: > > ANT_HOME=`readlink -m "$ANT_HOME"` Indeed, but that's not my call. I found this problem when trying to build OpenPffice.org with the newest cygwin snapshot. The failing snippet is from apache-ant-1.6.5/bin/ant and triggered by a configure check that tests if ant exists. Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D --------------enig5707600823096321B3099248 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDDqL/PTXJup+KeF0RAo2DAKDLM15PHmIkYU71WkHMVYuf+QJnGACcCg51 uXIdSwMMYwHrKmyZvrCKNJ0= =zu+l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5707600823096321B3099248--