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RE: new sh doesn't translate Unix-style paths for Perl?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Pollock [mailto:jpollock@curl.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 6:14 PM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: new sh doesn't translate Unix-style paths for Perl?
> 
> 
> There seems to be a problem in the new sh (1.1.x).  With the 
> old sh, we were
> able to invoke perl scripts directly:
> 
> VINCENTE$ sh
> $ cd
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/m
> $ ./make-version-info.pl
> make-version-info.pl: You must specify --filename
> 
> But the new sh doesn't seem to accept direct invocations in 
> this style:
> 
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/m
> $ ./make-version-info.pl
> ./make-version-info.pl: not found

Probably here it's perl that can't be found; the fisrt line should read
'#!/absolute/cygwin/path/to/perl' 

> 
> This would be OK if we could invoke perl directly and then 
> use the script as
> an argument, and we can do this when the perl script is invoked with a
> DOS-style path:
> 
> $ perl m:\make-version-info.pl
> make-version-info.pl: You must specify --filename
> 
> but if you use a Unix style path, it doesn't work:
> 
> $ perl /m/make-version-info.pl
> Can't open perl script "/m/make-version-info.pl": No such 
> file or directory

Two possible reasons here:

First it should be "./make-version-info.pl" (your pwd says that current
directory is /cygdrive/m)

Second if your perl is a Win32-native perl it could not understand cygwin
paths, so you can also use

perl `cygpath -w /cygdrive/m/make-version-info.pl`

HTH,

	Bernard

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