From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: B20, bash, #! & relative script execution
25 Nov 1998 18:35:36 -0800
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To: Austin David France <adf AT mentor-systems DOT com>,
        cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 07:42:19PM -0000, Austin David France wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 14:20, Christopher Faylor wrote
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 01:06:08PM -0000, Austin David France wrote:
>> >> Please try this with a recent snapshot, if you haven't already.
>> >
>> >Unfortunately, I am not able to build the latest snapshot (981116) due to
>> >missing headers (list.h and map.h) when building map.cc
>>
>> You'll need the complete distribution for those.  They're in libstdc++,
>> I believe.
>
>What constitutes a complete distribution?
>
>I have dev-src and user-src as well as winsup-981116, all extracted in the
>same root source directory (/usr/local/src/cygwin-b20).
>
>I was sat in the src/winsup sub directory when I typed ./configure - perhaps
>that's my problem?  I will start again.
>
>>
>> >> When reporting bugs like this it is very important to provide
>> >> complete information.  We now have a program "cygcheck" which
>> >> will provide this.  So, include cygcheck output with your
>> >> bug report.
>> >
>> >I am using Sergey's -11-8 version of the cygwin1.dll
>> >See attached cygcheck.txt file.
>>
>> Ok.  You've provided more information but you've left out the most
>> important piece.
>>
>> What exactly is failing?  It's not clear from the subject and going
>> back through the archives is not really something most of us have the
>> time to do.
>
>I described the problem at the start of this particular thread (Fri 20th
>Nov), and so assumed I did not need to repeat my self.  Anyway, the problem
>is
>
>	$ echo '#!/bin/bash' >/d/Mentor/Bin/xx
>	$ echo 'echo $@' >>/d/Mentor/Bin/xx
>	$ echo '#!/bin/bash' >/d/Mentor/Bin/xxyyzzx
>	$ echo 'echo $@' >>/d/Mentor/Bin/xxyyzzx
>	$ xx hello
>	(hangs, ^c to abort)
>	$ xxyyzzx hello
>	hello
>	$

Could you try a binary snapshot of what I hope will soon be B20.1?

ftp://cambridge.cygnus.com/private/cgf/cygwin1.dll.gz

I have no problem running xx with that DLL.  Would you let me know
if it works for you?

-chris