[winGRASS] problems with installing from sources and ash.exe

[Mike Thomas]

Hi Ivan.

Ash.exe is actually "/usr/bin/sh.exe" and is about 67K.  Ash is used by
Cygwin as a small fast starting shell for scripts instead of GNU Bash.exe
(about 460K, much larger, much slower to start).

Sometimes "bash.exe" is copied to "sh.exe" because it is more comprehensive
and stable, but I suspect that this may not be necessary these days.

As.exe is the GNU assembler (a programming tool) - definitely not some kind
of shell and definitely not to be renamed if you want to recompile Grass.

Cheers

Mike Thomas.




----- Original Message -----
From: Ivan Kautter <ivankautter at hotmail.com>
To: <wingrass at grass.itc.it>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 9:06 AM
Subject: [winGRASS] problems with installing from sources and ash.exe


> Fellow list serv members,
>
> In attempting to follow the detailed installing from sources instructions,
I
> came across an interesting problem.  At some point, it is required to move
> ash.exe and sh.exe, but as far as I can tell my installation of cygwin has
> no ash.exe, although it does have an as.exe.  Is it possible that this is
a
> misnamed ash.exe?  If not, can someone direct me as to how I might install
> ash for cygwin?  Great work to port grass to windows!  Keep us the good
> work!  Thanks.
>
> Ivan Kautter
> Department of Environmental Science and Policy
> UC Davis
>
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