On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Doug Philips wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 04:50PM, Jason Tishler indited:
>
> >> Then I went looking, and what happens just before rebase is called?
> >> zcat and egrep are called.
> >> zcat is a link to gzip which is a .exe file.
> >> egrep, however, is a shell script
> >> $ cd /usr/bin
> >> $ cat egrep
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> exec grep -E ${1+"$@"}
> >> $
> >
> >The above is causing the problem. Why is egrep a shell script on your
> >system? It should be a symlink:
> >
> > $ ls -l /usr/bin/egrep
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 jtishler Users 4 Mar 29 2004 /usr/bin/egrep
> > -> grep
> >
> >Either restored the symlink or change the trigger line to:
> >
> > #!/bin/ash
>
> Huh?
>
> $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/egrep
> grep-2.5.1a-2
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> $ cygcheck -cv grep
> Cygwin Package Information
> Last downloaded files to: C:\Documents and Settings\Changeme\Desktop
> Last downloaded files from:
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin
>
> Package Version Status
> grep 2.5.1a-2 OK
>
> $
>
> Doesn't look like anything is wrong, yet it is still a script on my
> system. I've also tried using setup.exe to reinstall grep, but egrep is
> still a script. Is this a bug in setup, the grep package, cygcheck, or
> ???
No bug. It *is* a script (at least in binary tarball of grep). I don't
know where Jason's symlink came from.
Jason, is your "grep" package up-to-date?
That said, however, don't rely on "cygcheck -c" to be very accurate. It
only checks for missing files, and doesn't look at the content. So, if
the tarball contained a script but your system had a symlink (like Jason's
does), cygcheck would not report an error.
Igor
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