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Re: Thanks. Re: Broken Bash 2.05? a configure can't find /bin/sh


Thanks again, I did understand that not my whole installation was bad. I
just had to check what was missing. The ash gzip was on my machine, since I
install and upgrade in two passes. What was interesting was that my ash got
uninstalled. Fat mouse syndrome I guess (on my part).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Thanks. Re: Broken Bash 2.05? a configure can't find /bin/sh


> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:37:21PM -0700, Dennis Wilson wrote:
> >The explanation is great. I can work around this. I just thought I had
done
> >something wrong on my
> >upgrade and was preparing to reinstall.
>
> Actually, as I noted, the explanation did not really explain your problem.
> It appears that there *is* something wrong with your installation if you
> don't have a /bin/sh.
>
> >Cygwin is a GREAT way for a unix person to get along with windows. I hope
> >you guys can continue.
>
> Well, cygwin seems to be gaining in popularity both without and within
> (despite a few annoying nay-sayers) Red Hat so it looks like we'll be
> hear for a while.
>
> cgf
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Troy Noble" <troy.noble@channelpoint.com>
> >To: "'Dennis Wilson'" <lincwils@teleport.com>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:59 AM
> >Subject: RE: Broken Bash 2.05? a configure can't find /bin/sh
> >
> >
> >> bash doesn't get installed as /bin/sh, it gets installed as /bin/bash.
> >>
> >> The "ash" package (a Bourne shell clone) is the one that actually gets
> >> installed as /bin/sh.  So if you didn't install ash*.tar.gz, you've
> >> likely not got a /bin/sh.
> >>
> >> What we've done to get around this is install the "bash" package, but
> >> not the "ash" package, and then we:
> >>
> >> cp -p /bin/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe
> >>
> >> and that ensures that we are always running bash and that /bin/sh
> >> is always there.  We've standardized on BASH for our purposes here,
> >> so this is acceptable practice for our environment.
> >>
> >> YMMV.
> >>
> >> Troy
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dennis Wilson [mailto:lincwils@teleport.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:08 PM
> >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> >> Subject: Broken Bash 2.05? a configure can't find /bin/sh
> >>
> >>
> >> I ungraded my cygwin on my Win2k system. It now can't find sh.
> >> I did not do anything but run the setup and accept the packages that
> >needed
> >> to be upgraded.
> >>
> >> I was working on building tcl and when I went back into the directory
to
> >run
> >> the configure script I got the following message.
> >>
> >> $ ./configure --enable-gcc
> >> bin/bash .configure: bad interpreter: no such file or directory.
> >>
> >> What appears to be going on is that the pathing has changed and /bin/sh
is
> >> no longer valid.
> >> Any ideas??
>
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