From: jp@nuancecom.com (JP Shipherd) Subject: Re: bash won't hand off to perl (reprise) 21 Mar 1997 23:33:36 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970321154950.00a22ce0.cygnus.gnu-win32@awesome.nuance.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: jp@awesome.nuance.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Original-To: Rick Rankin Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 09:11 PM 3/20/97 -0700, you wrote: >>However, the following still does not work: >> >>%> /bin/sh perl-script.pl >> >>In this case bash still tries to process the file as if it is a bourne > >This is not a bug; it is correct behavior. When you execute the command > >/bin/sh perl-script.pl > >you are telling the shell to interpret the file "perl-script.pl" as a >bourne shell script. You're right, this is the same behaviour exhibited on solaris. However that is exactly the command spawned by gnumake (if SHELL=/bin/sh). How does it happen differently if executed in a makefile than executed from the command line? --jp - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".