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Re: new sh doesn't translate Unix-style paths for Perl?
- To: John Pollock <jpollock at curl dot com>
- Subject: Re: new sh doesn't translate Unix-style paths for Perl?
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:05:25 -0400
- CC: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <NEBBJPGNBOKKDAEIIMIKGEDNCCAA.jpollock@curl.com>
FYI, Geoff Hart contribed a stub executable to assist in running
ActiveState perl from cygwin. It is provided as-is, but it may help
your situation:
http://cygutils.netpedia.net/unversioned/perl-contrib/index.html
--Chuck
John Pollock wrote:
>
> >Does it work in bash? Was your old "sh" ash or bash?
>
> Our old "sh" was ash. To answer the other points, i understand that
> ActiveState Perl may not be properly parsing the paths, but the old sh
> appeared to do some sort of translation on its behalf. Switching to a
> different version of Perl at this point is going to be difficult for us, so
> i was hoping to be able to use the new sh without losing any of the previous
> functionality. And i'm still not sure i understand why ./ invocations of
> Perl scripts don't work with the new sh, as they did with the old.
>
> One of my motivations for trying to use the new sh is that we've been seeing
> a lot of "Can't send signal 20" errors and make segmentation faults since we
> upgraded from b20 to v1.1.4 (we're at the very latest version as of
> yesterday), but we hadn't upgraded sh because of some of the issues like the
> one above. I was hoping that upgrading sh (which is invoked by make) might
> lessen some of these problems, but perhaps that wouldn't happen anyway.
>
> I appreciate all the feedback so far! Thanks all!
> John
>
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