From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: vfork: permission denied 22 Jan 1997 18:12:27 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701221158.DAA19287.cygnus.gnu-win32@rtl.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text Original-To: nrd@xox.com (Neal R. Dalton) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "Neal R. Dalton" at Jan 13, 97 09:11:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Length: 382 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Neal R. Dalton wrote: > > I installed 17.1, setup my environment variable, make a hello world program. > > When I run make or gcc I get: > > MAKE.EXE: vfork: Permission denied This usually happens when bash wants to fork off a copy of itself to execute something and then fails to find itself. Do you have a /bin/sh? Is bash in your path? -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".