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From: David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
To: "Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425)" <MATT.LEHR@APPL.GE.COM>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Cygwin Perl system() Invokes exec() Directly?
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <193-Thu20Sep2001073423+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DC3FF95C367D411B47E00D0B73E4B38F80849@ap3expr8applge.appl.ge.com>

On Wednesday 19 Sep 01, Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425) writes:
> 	It turns out your suspicions about configuration were correct:  I'm
> trying to keep a minimal installation here and it turns out that none of the
> packages I've installed contain the Bourne shell.  I've worked around the
> problem via "ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh"...

Or you could *solve* the problem by installing ash.  See the entry
"What packages should I download?" in the FAQ.

David


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-19 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-19 14:59 Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425)
2001-09-19 23:34 ` David Starks-Browning [this message]
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2001-09-19 14:39 Gerrit P. Haase
2001-09-19 14:11 Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425)
2001-09-19 14:19 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-19 12:41 Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425)
2001-09-19 13:30 ` Gerrit P. Haase

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