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 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:34:22 +0100 Message-ID: <193-Thu20Sep2001073423+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425)" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cygwin Perl system() Invokes exec() Directly? In-Reply-To: <3DC3FF95C367D411B47E00D0B73E4B38F80849@ap3expr8applge.appl.ge.com> References: <3DC3FF95C367D411B47E00D0B73E4B38F80849@ap3expr8applge.appl.ge.com> On Wednesday 19 Sep 01, Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425) writes: > It turns out your suspicions about configuration were correct: I'm > trying to keep a minimal installation here and it turns out that none of the > packages I've installed contain the Bourne shell. I've worked around the > problem via "ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh"... Or you could *solve* the problem by installing ash. See the entry "What packages should I download?" in the FAQ. David -- 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/