On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:30:03PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: >> Well, it's stopping a real fix for the MinGW build failure being made. >> Adding #! support to libiberty won't work because the problem scripts >> have MSYS/Cygwin paths for the shell (eg. "/bin/sh") that aren't likely >> to be valid to plain Windows. > >DJGPP solves this thusly: > > /* If INTERP is a Unix-style pathname, like "/bin/sh", we will try > it with the usual extensions and, if that fails, will further > search for the basename of the shell along the PATH; this > allows to run Unix shell scripts without editing their first line. */
That was the technique I am in the process of using, too. Hmm. You know, I probably should just steal the code from DJGPP... cgf
