From: M DOT A DOT Bukin AT inp DOT nsk DOT su
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: /dev/null problems with bash when rebuild from sources
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 981004124227 DOT 1863Q-100000 AT is>
Date: 04 Oct 1998 20:48:20 +0700
In-Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:42:45 +0300 (IDT)"
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> On 3 Oct 1998 M DOT A DOT Bukin AT inp DOT nsk DOT su wrote:
> 
> > It can be related to `SYSROOT' environment variable.  At least, if I
> > set SYSROOT to the DJDIR, bash can not find /dev/null, but can find
> > /bin/sh.  And if I remove SYSROOT var., bash finds /dev/null, but not
> > /bin/sh.
> 
> I cannot reproduce this with bash.exe from bsh1147b.zip.  Bash works
> for me with or without SYSROOT.

I tried the following:

djgpp 20:29:17> echo $SYSROOT

djgpp 20:29:33> echo test > /dev/null
djgpp 20:29:42> /bin/echo test
bash: /bin/echo: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
djgpp 20:30:51> SYSROOT=$DJDIR
 20:31:01> echo $SYSROOT
d:/comp/djgpp
 20:31:07> echo test > /dev/null
bash: /dev/null: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
 20:31:14> /bin/echo test
test

Here are attributes of bash:

> cd $DJDIR/bin; ls -l bash.exe
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mike     dos        403968 Sep 27  1997 bash.exe
> cd $DJDIR/manifest; cat bsh1147b.ver
bsh1147b GNU bash 1.14.7 for DJGPP v2


I recall that long ago there was a thread about problem with
`/dev/null' in bash and the result was that support for $SYSROOT in
bash breaks support for `/dev/null' (which comes from libc?).  And
bash was fixed.  But maybe it was something else, I don't remember for
sure.

-- 
Michael Bukin