On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 23 Oct, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> > Version 2.05b-16 of the Bash package is now available for download.
> >
> > This is a bugfix release relative to 2.05b-15, and fixes the bug reported
> > and patched in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html.
>
> Might ash (/bin/sh) suffer from the same problem? Might this explain
> why /etc/XFree86-bin-icons.sh often hangs the install when it does
> the backtic cygpath and has to be killed?
>
> luke
Actually, the problem with XFree86-bin-icons *was* a bash problem.
Setup.exe ran /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh using /bin/sh, and
that called a *bash* script (/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh, with
"#!/bin/bash" magic). When cygpath was run from there (within backticks)
it hung.
Igor
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