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problems with sh.exe

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ak120:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on June 13, 2017, 02:37:18 am ---What's your makeshell set to? Is the PMMail makefile written for sh or cmd.exe? You could try

--- Code: ---set MAKESHELL=cmd.exe
--- End code ---

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Additionally the setting of environment variable EMXSHELL seems to be preferred by some tools.

Greg Pringle:
Where did the Postgres 9.1.7 come from. Is it a Paul Smedley port? He is not currently listing that one.

Greg Pringle:
I should have checked first. I have the Paul Smedley port postgresql-9.1.7-os2-201201212.zip
I will install it with ArcaOS and report my findings.

Silvan Scherrer:

--- Quote from: Jan-Erik Lärka on June 11, 2017, 10:13:43 pm ---I've successfully installed PostgreSQL in the past.
One has to use initdb.exe and the various executables to create databases, add tables, data and functions etc.
I decided to try once more, but now stumble on messages that sh.exe can't do this and that.
I've tried to rename ash, bash, dash to sh but the problem remain.
What has been changed and why? Fix?

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Please have a look at issue #164. I gave there some hints.

And this issue has completely nothing to do with sh. Sh behaves exactly as it should. When a app or a script using sh doesn't escape \ right it can't work of course. The reason (most likely) that it now came up, is the SET SHELL setting in config.sys. This setting is for most parts ok, but might break some old ports. In this case just unset the setting on a cmdline and start the installation again. This should work.

regards
Silvan

Greg Pringle:
I unset SHELL and it makes no difference.

Paul sent me the source for 9.1.3  which I spent some time with. It looks like path.c might be destroying the path.
Not able to correctly retain the directory slashes. I don't have the time for full debugging.
Clearly a change was made to the paths in the current ArcaOS.

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