Something screwed up in PROJECT_ROOT or PROJECT_TOPdir

[Peter Dufault]

On Feb 22, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 10:29 -0600, Chris Caudle wrote:
>> On Tuesday 22 February 2005 10:16 am, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> I am able to reproduce this effect (cd /) with ash under FC3
>>
>> Isn't ash the shell that is always causing problems under Cygwin?
> I don't know if it still is, but it had been cause of a lot of headache
> in the past.
>
>> Is this getting to the point that the build instructions are going to 
>> have to
>> include explicit instructions to not use ash as the build shell?
> I don't know yet which shell Peter is using. He's on FreeBSD :-)
>
> In general, I do not recommend using ash as shell because it is known 
> to
> be the cause of troubles in many cases. However, as most shells have 
> had
> (temporary) problems at some points in their history (comprising bash,
> zsh, ksh, pdksh), so explicitly "discouraging using ash" might be a bit
> strong.
>
> However if Peter's shell shows to be ash, and if cygwin users can
> confirm current Cygwin's ash to be the cause of build failures, I'll
> agree to you.

It is ash.  I'm building bash statically linked and I'll at least 
temporarily put
that in as /bin/sh and see what happens.  I just checked and on my 
Mac's they use
bash for /bin/sh.
>
> Anyway, I hope to have fixed at least the spot which seems to have
> triggered Peter's issue within the next couple of hours - test builds
> are in progress :-)
>

Thanks for your help, Ralf.

Peter Dufault
HD Associates, Inc.