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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to cygwin on 11/23/2005 7:08 AM:
> > Not Found: sh
>
> Even worse - your cygwin installation is incomplete.  The postinstall
> script that installs /bin/sh probably failed because of your other
> unix-y tools in your path, but without /bin/sh, many other cygwin tools
> will fail.

Would it make sense for setup to prepend /bin to the path before invoking
postinstall scripts?  I recall this being proposed before, but don't
remember what the objections were at the time (other than SHTDI).
	Igor
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