From: knight@dircon.co.uk (Warren & SLS Knight) Subject: Creating /tmp works (was RE: Strange configuration script problems...) 25 Nov 1996 12:40:20 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BBDB09.06ECEE40.cygnus.gnu-win32@knight.dircon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'GNU GCC List'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Any of the following worked for b16... 1) mkdir c:\tmp or 2) mount c:\windows\temp /tmp or 3) mount $TEMP /tmp (My favorite suggestion) Thanks for the help, Warren ---------- From: Larry Hall[SMTP:lhall@rfk.com] Sent: Monday, November 25, 1996 3:03 PM To: Greg Rumple; Warren & SLS Knight Cc: Gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: RE: Strange configuration script problems... At 03:44 PM 11/24/96 -0500, Greg Rumple wrote: >On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Warren & SLS Knight wrote: > >> The problem appears to be with how the BASH shell handles the >> the << operator. You will see what I mean if you try the following >> in bash: >> bash$ 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. > <> 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".