Ash feature causing defect in configure scripts.

Ash feature causing defect in configure scripts.

[Earnie Boyd]

I've found that sh.exe has doesn't execute the following in a subshell and thus
affects the parent.  This has an affect on some shell scripts that expect that
the command doesn't affect the parent and IMO I don't think it should either.

Feature/defect:

`cd /` will actually change the directory of the current process when what is
intended is to check the noise returning from the subprocess.

Cheers,

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Re: Ash feature causing defect in configure scripts.

[Earnie Boyd]

BTW, if you have a configure script that exhibits this behavior the workaround
is to do `bash ../configure --prefix=/your/path'.

--- Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've found that sh.exe has doesn't execute the following in a subshell and
> thus
> affects the parent.  This has an affect on some shell scripts that expect
> that
> the command doesn't affect the parent and IMO I don't think it should either.
> 
> Feature/defect:
> 
> `cd /` will actually change the directory of the current process when what is
> intended is to check the noise returning from the subprocess.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> =====
> ---
>    Earnie Boyd: < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >
>             __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__
> Cygwin Newbies: < http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html >
>            __Minimalist GNU for Windows__
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>     Mingw Home: < http://www.mingw.org/ >
> 
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