RE: Command boxes popping up

[jurgen.defurne@philips.com]

"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
2004-12-13 04:54 PM
 
        To:     Jurgen Defurne/BRG/CE/PHILIPS@PHILIPS
<cygwin@cygwin.com>
        cc: 
        Subject:        RE: Command boxes popping up
        Classification: 




> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of jurgen.defurne
> Sent: 13 December 2004 15:39

> Hi Dave,
> 
> No, I have no problems with graphical applications.

  Cool, it would have _really_ confused me if you did!

> My scripts run a variety of commands, mostly cygwin,
> but some applications run in a DOS shell.
> 
> To elaborate, I run bash, and inside this shell I start 
> ActiveState Perl,
> which of course knows nothing about Cygwin. The script run by
> ActiveState's Perl, then starts system or `` commands, and it is
> from there that I get command boxes.
> 
> I have run a small test :
> $ /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/perl -e "system \"dir\""
> 
> and this pops up a DOS command box while the command
> executes.
> 
> I did not have that before, and the only thing changed was
> the upgrade to Cygwin 1.5.11.

  Nonetheless, it would seem that ActiveState Perl is the thing with the 
bug in
it.  Not being a cygwin program, a change to the cygwin dll could hardly 
affect
ActiveState Perl's behaviour, could it?

>>>>###########################################################################

Yes, but how does that explain that I did not have the problems if I ran
the same things when Cygwin 1.5.3 was still installed ?

<<<<###########################################################################

  Well, it shouldn't of course, but I can imagine one way in which it 
could.

  Bear in mind that running inside the bash shell - unlike if you were to 
just
try your test from a cmd.exe shell - has one major difference: the $PATH 
setting
includes the cygwin bin directories at the front.

>>>>###########################################################################

I will check this PATH setting, although my script fixes up the path 
before
starting system calls.

<<<<###########################################################################

  Now, given that cygwin includes its own distribution of Perl, which 
presumably
is also called "perl.exe", we have a potential for clashes here.

>>>>###########################################################################

The subscripts explicit remove any references to any Cygwin environment, 
because they know that they clash with each other.

<<<<###########################################################################

  FWIW, running the example that you gave with cygwin perl doesn't produce 
a DOS
box.  I'm not surprised that AS perl wants to have its system commands run 
in a
dos box, as that's the only system it knows about.  OTOH I see Jason's 
post
saying that he can't reproduce your problem.  Therefore I suggest the two 
of you
compare $PATH settings, in particular which order AS perl and cygwin's bin
directories occur in both your $PATHs, and that may give us some further
clues...

    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....




--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/