cygwin build_alias issue (and a possible workaround...)

[newell at cei.net (Scott Newell)]

At 01:18 PM 9/4/2004 , Bogdan Vacaliuc wrote:
>
>Um, did anyone notice that the shell used for the configure scripts is
>/bin/sh?  And on cygwin:
>
>[/tmp] ls -al /bin/sh
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ Users       74240 Jan 27  2004 /bin/sh*
>[/tmp] ls -al `which bash`
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ Users      527360 Oct 20  2003 /usr/bin/bash*
>
>And a 'man sh' leads on to think that the 'sh' implemented is ash?
>
>Just out of crazy curiosity, what happens if you put /bin/sh aside and
>replace it with bash?  I'll try this now too..

Mine still fails with the build_alias error after replacing sh with bash.


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newell