From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <199902081517.QAA10997@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: make crash
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:17:12 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990207114337.15342K-100000@is> from Eli Zaretskii at "Feb 7, 99 11:44:18 am"
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> 
> On 6 Feb 1999, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> 
> > Ok. I know what is causing the problem. My environment variable SHELL
> > is set to "f:/djgpp/bin/-bash.exe".
> 
> Why would you need that?  AFAIK, -bash is only needed in interactive
> invocation, to make it a login shell, but should never be necessary
> (and could be even dangerous) after that.
> 
> > This -bash.exe created I with "ln
> > -s -- bash -bash", hence the problem (I suppose) is make crashes if
> > SHELL is set to a DJGPP symbolic link while building tar.
> 
> Did you try to actually copy bash.exe into -bash.exe, and see if that
> prevents Make from crashing?  I don't recollect any special treatment
> of symlinks in Make, so I'd rather suspect Bash being invoked as a
> login shell when it shouldn't be.

Nope, but now I have. It seems that if either of two cases we'll have a
crash:
1. name starts with a "-".
2. a symlink (DJGPP kind)


1. can perhaps be explained as some .bash_login thing (although I
haven't got any such file)

2. can't be explained that easily.


Right,

							MartinS