Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.4 Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 16:25:40 -0400 From: "Christopher Murray" To: Cc: Subject: Re: Some questions concerning perl and sh Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id QAA10234 Thanks, Thought I had installed ash, but it looks like it ain't there. I've installed it in the past, but I just got a new machine and it appears I didn't install it. As for Activestate, I figured there was no hope given that it really wants to know about DOS/Windows paths, but I guess I thought there might be a chance, however slight, that one of you might actually diagnose it to be a shell issue and some workaround therefore might be there. At any rate, using cygwin perl won't be a problem as long there are no showstoppers which prevent me from running my, admittedly uncomplicated, scripts. Chris >>> Charles Wilson 09/06/01 03:59PM >>> Christopher Murray wrote: > 1) What is it about Activestate perl that prevents one from > accessing /usr/bin/perl ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this is a cygwin path > -w (or c:/cygwin/usr/bin/perl, or ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ so us this (*) > /cygdrive/c/usr/bin/perl) in the shebang line of the script when ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and this. Active state perl CANNOT use cygwin paths -- only cygwin programs understand them. (*) This LOOKS like a native path -- but it isn't. /usr/bin is actually an empty directory. Within cygwin, /bin is mounted ONTO /usr/bin. But, if you use explorer, you'll see that the programs and files are ACTUALLY in c:/cygwin/bin. > the script is not in the cwd? Is there any way around this (and > still use Activestate perl)? > > 2) What is it about cygwin-ported perl that it must know about sh > when running "system"? Where is sh.exe? Is creating a link to > bash the only way to resolve this? On unix/perl, "system" means "use the shell to execute the following command". Thus, you need a shell. (Also, you should install the ash package; it provides /bin/sh. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/