This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: perl/cygwin and system calls
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: perl/cygwin and system calls
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:36:46 -0500
- Cc: JPerakis at crossbeamsys dot com
- References: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D7602CEA6@wilber.adroit.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:28:31PM -0500, Robinow, David wrote:
>> From: Perakis, John [mailto:JPerakis@crossbeamsys.com]
>> Subject: perl/cygwin and system calls
>> ... I'm trying to use a system call to kick off my
>> make ie system("//c/cygwin/bin/make all"). This piece is failing, I
>> believe, because the system call is going out and using an NT
>> environment not a Cygwin env. Does anyone know how I can get this to
>> what I want.
The description of "failing" does not really provide enough information
to debug the problem.
I assume, however, that if you avoid using a Cygwin path in the system
command, things will work better:
system("c:/cygwin/bin/make all")
It sounds like you're using a non-cygwin version of perl.
cgf
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple