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Re: Newly-installed bash 3.2.9-10 (cygwin 1.5.24-1) exits when I try to execute a program


Glenn Serre <gaserre <at> spiresoftware.com> writes:

> 
> Good morning,
> 
> I installed a new version of cygwin yesterday, and find that bash starts up 
and
> builtins seem to execute, but when I try the first command, cygwin exits
> silently.  
> [...]
> Any hints? Should I wait until I can try 3.2.9-11 from a mirror?
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> 
> --Glenn S.
> 
> 
> [...]

Consider content of a message that appeared a little earlier:


From: Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net>
Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.9-11
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
Date: 2007-01-27 16:30:22 GMT (2 days, 14 hours and 41 minutes ago)
[...]
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
 (set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the shopt, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
[...]


db


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