From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall) Subject: RE: Strange configuration script problems... 25 Nov 1996 10:27:21 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <2.2.32.19961125150313.002eafc0.cygnus.gnu-win32@ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: lhall@ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Original-To: Greg Rumple , Warren & SLS Knight Original-Cc: "Gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 03:44 PM 11/24/96 -0500, Greg Rumple wrote: >On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Warren & SLS Knight wrote: > >> The problem appears to be with how the BASH shell handles the >> the << operator. You will see what I mean if you try the following >> in bash: >> bash$ cat <> > This is a test >> > EOF >> BASH.EXE: 9146372: No such file or directory >> >> I have downloaded the source and am getting ready to look for >> the error. But I am new to this list and don't know if a patch has >> already been given. > >You are correct, that hits the problem directly on the nose. I have seen >quite a few discussions of this problem on this list, but no one has yet >come up with a fix, or a work around (besides re-writing the configure >script). > >But if anyone does have a fix for this, I would like to get a copy of it. > >|-----------------------------------------------------| >| Greg Rumple grumple@magg.net | >| | >| M.A.G. Information Services System Administrator | >| | >| http://www.magg.net South Florida's I-Net Provider | >| (561) 964-9841 Accounts from 19.95 | >|-----------------------------------------------------| > > If this truly is not just a problem with a missing /tmp directory (I don't know; I didn't try it), then it must be a b16 bug. I tried the above example on the command line in b14 and it works just fine. If its a b16 bug, maybe it will be fixed in b17??? Larry - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".