From: cseawood@qualcomm.com (Christopher Seawood) Subject: Re: #!/bin/sh troubles 28 Dec 1998 16:49:31 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, it was written: > > I copied b20.1's sh.exe to /bin/sh and cp removed the execute permissions. > Chmod'ing the binary did not work either. So I moved /bin/sh to > /bin/sh.exe. Autoconf runs and spits 6 lines of control chars, each > ending with ": not found". Then it spits out > /bin/sh.exe: 11: Syntax error: ")" unexpected. > Well, I was playing with the problem again today when I accidentally typed: sh /bin/sh.exe . And surprise, I got the same 6 lines of control chars so could it be that sh is attempting to run itself instead of the shell script that calls it when I try to run just ./configure or autoconf? Regards, Christopher - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".