From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: [Fwd: exec of shell scripts] patch to it
6 Nov 1998 14:45:47 -0800
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In gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
marc_auslander AT us DOT ibm DOT com wrote:
> 
> The readme's indicate a change in shell script handling - they say that #!
> is now honored.
> 
> However, it appears that scripts with NO #! no longer work at all.
> 
> Similarly, scripts with a relative name after #! do not work, even thought
> the name is in the path.

I think, I have found the solution for the problem. In the file
`spawn.cc', the function `spawn_guts()' calls the function `find_exec()'
in an incorrect way. It works now in my environment.

Regards,
Corinna

ChangeLog:
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Fri Nov 06 22:40:13 1998 Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>

	* spawn.cc (spawn_guts): Fixed the call to `find_exec()'.

----snip ----
--- spawn.cc.orig       Fri Nov 06 22:40:13 1998
+++ spawn.cc    Fri Nov 06 23:05:33 1998
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ spawn_guts (HANDLE hToken, const char *
        * arg1  optional string
        * ptr   end of string
        */
-      find_exec (pgm, (char *) prog_arg1, ext);
+      find_exec (pgm, (char *) prog_arg1, "PATH=", 0, &ext);
       char *f = (char *) alloca (strlen (copy) + strlen (prog_arg) +
                                 strlen (real_path) + (ptr - arg1) + 7);
       strcpy (f, prog_arg1);