From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Seitz To: Cc: Subject: Re: Building Insight on Cygwin (bad interpreter) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:15:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3BB2CFD3.CD50A11A@hmse.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q3/msg00291.html On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 peter.betts@hmse.com wrote: > > What does "ls -l /bin/sh" show? > > ls: /bin/sh: No such file or directory Aha! Just what I thought! :-) > which I guess means I didn't have sh.exe installed so I found one and > then got > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 68608 Dec 1 1998 /bin/sh > > but it still falls over later. (not exactly a new version of sh.exe > 1998?) Not a good idea. In the old days, we used to copy cygwin's bash to /bin/sh, but nowadays, they've much better processes to deal with this. > I'm going to try re-installing CYGWIN and try to get it to install every > file. (thought I did this before) > and also grab the 5.1 version of Insight and try again. Yes, I think this is the best approach. You don't mention what version of cygwin you're trying to use, but going to http://www.cygwin.com and clicking "Install Cygwin now" is the best route to go, given you're looking at an installation error/problem right now. Good luck. Keith