Cygwin RCS Build Instructions (or sometimes ash does not like a.out)

Thu Oct 12 07:39:00 GMT 2000

Chris,
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:28:45AM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:27:45AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >I believe that I finally got to the bottom of why there are problems
> >building RCS on Cygwin. It boils down to an idiosyncrasy of ash which
> >can be demonstrating by the following:
> >
> > $ cd /tmp
> > $ cp /usr/bin/id.exe a.out
> > $ sh -c ./a.out
> > ./a.out: not found
>> ash wants files to have the executable bit set. Cygwin fakes this by looking
> for files with specific extensions and setting the bit in that case.
>> '.out' is not one of the extensions.

OK. But, why does the following work (continuing the above):
 $ sh -c a.out
 uid=1000(jt) gid=513(None) groups=513(None)
Thanks,
Jason
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