Subject: Re: [GRASS5] compiling beta10 on IRIX and CYGWIN/WIN32

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Justin,

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:51:20PM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> Hi Andreas
> 
> Andreas Lange wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Justin, Hi Malcolm,
> > - there is no clear bin. But "tput clear" works. This works for me on
> > Linux, IRIX and CYGWIN, so IMHO it can be changed.
> 
> OK, I'll make the change in CVS and see what happens.
>  
> > - on CYGWIN $SHELL is always "/bin/sh", even if running in bash. This > is the reason grass5 starts always with sh. If i do a "export
> > SHELL=`which bash`" before starting grass5, it does not work, as SHELL
> > is set to "D:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe", so that `basename $SHELL` is
> > bash.exe. If i add bash|bash.exe) in the shell check in Init.sh,
> > everything starts up as expected, but $ETC/run $SHELL gets into a dead
> > loop. If i Ctrl-C, i am in a grass session (but PS1 and others are not
> > correctly set), if i wait, the PATH-variable is expanded until the
> > resource is exhausted and i get a "fork: resource not available". I
> > can manually start $ETC/run $SHELL with SHELL=/bin/bash or
> > SHELL=D:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe. I am totally clueless whats happening
> > here. I tested many combinations. Only the /bin/sh setup works.
> > 
> > PATH is set to something like this (only snippet):
> > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:...
> 
> Hmmm. It appears as if the $ETC/run $SHELL program is getting stuck in
> the "search the path for exe file" part of the program. I have attached
> a new version of run.c which uses execvp() instead of execv() which uses
> the system to search the path. Please try this version of run.c and see
> what happens. If it is successful, I will submit it to CVS since it will
> get rid of most of the code in run.c. It seems to work for me on IRIX
> but that doesn't mean anything. :)
Hi Justin,

the run.c seems to work fine on Linux (how to hard-test?).

Yours

 Markus

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