At 04:07 PM 1/28/00 -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>At 12:33 PM 1/28/00 -0500, Thomas Briggs wrote:
>> I ran into the same error that Bob did, and the problem for me turned
out
>>to be that /bin/sh.exe was tcsh, not bash. Once I copied bash.exe from the
>>cygnus bin directory to /bin/sh.exe libiconv built fine.
>
> Given that the prompt says "bash-2.02$", I figure that's not it ;).
Hmmph. You may want to try it anyhow, just to be sure. IIRC, the default
shell installed with Cygwin is quite bash-like, but what the scripts need
*is* bash, at that specific location. Go figure.
>>If that doesn't
>>turn out to be the problem, try running "libiconv/autoconf/config.sub sun4"
>>manually and see what the error is. configure in the libiconv directory is
>>failing because libiconv/autoconf/config.sub isn't executing correctly.
>
> I tried that, cygwin doesn't consider config.sub to be an
>executable file!
Works for me:
bash-2.01$ pwd
/work/libiconv/autoconf
bash-2.01$ bash config.sub sun4
sparc-sun-sunos4.1.1
bash-2.01$
Paul
