Re: [Gnu-arch-users] New user - building on Cygwin

[Jan Hudec]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:02:49 -0400, Karl Waclawek wrote:
> 
> More feed back on make test under Cygwin:
>  
> > - create separate "build" directory (parallel to src)
> > - cd to this directory
> > - run ../src/configure --with-cc gcc --config-shell /bin/bash
> > - run make 
> > 
> > Which works fine. Then I ran make test and got errors, the same
> > as in the archived message, i.e. for the "fs-tests" directory
> > (the error messages not telling me much),
> 
> Main problem was: ~/ expandion did not work right.
> Reason: In Cygwin, sh maps to ash, not bash.
> Once I pointed sh to bash this test worked fine.
> 
> Question: Except for these tests, is tla sensitive
> to the fact that sh really is ash and not bash under Cygwin?

sh is really ash on my linux too and everything works all right, so no,
it's not.

IIRC tla does not use a shell at all.

Btw, after resolving this problem, does it seem that tla works under
Cygwin?

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