[Mingw-users] spawning ``#! /bin/sh'' scripts [was Re: make'ing make-3.18beta4....]

[Danny S. <dan...@cl...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd"

> As I hear you, you would rather that someone port bash to native windows and
> forget about the POSIX nature MSYS provides.  I spent six months off and on
> looking at bash and decided to fork Cygwin.  Feel free to give the bash port a
> go.  I would even suggest MinGW host it if you wish.  But what would one do
> with scripts that start like ``#! /bin/sh''; e.g autoconf generated configure
> scripts?  Oh, yeah we have to map /bin to something physical which happens to
> be the location of the executable or dll.

FWIW, Christopher Faylor has contributed  functionality  to libiberty (in
pex-win32.c) that allows native (msvcrt.dll-dependent) executables to spawn
"#!/bin/sh" scripts as executables .  The function can be made MSYS-aware, but
can also work with other /bin/sh.exe's.

Danny


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