From: Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>
To: Philippe Wang <mail@philippewang.info>
Cc: David Guaspari <dguaspari@atcorp.com>,
OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] unable to install opam under cywgin
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:28:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140830112802.GA12283@notk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAFfW_r=kCwRuCSQh6F4eirxRpfXSJmUHpPYyTaDbVc=aEvN-w@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014, Philippe Wang wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:22 PM, David Guaspari <dguaspari@atcorp.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to install opam 1.1.2. Under cygwin I do
> >
> > ./configure
> > make lib-ext
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > The last of these fails with the error message
> >
> > -- begin
> >
> > OPAMROOT=/tmp/opam-install-install src/opam-installer --prefix /usr/local
> > opam.install
> > [ERROR] Could not find "C:\\opam-full-1.1.2\\src\\opam"
> > [ERROR] Could not find "C:\\opam-full-1.1.2\\src\\opam-admin"
> > [ERROR] Could not find "C:\\opam-full-1.1.2\\src\\opam-installer"
> > doc/man\opam.1 => /usr/local\man\man1\opam.1
> > Fatal error: exception Unix.Unix_error(20, "create_process", "/bin/sh")
> > Makefile:52: recipe for target 'install' failed
> > make: *** [install] Error 2
> >
> > -- end
> >
> > In fact, the directory C:opam-full-1.1.2\src contains the executables
> > opam.exe
> > opam-admin.exe
> > opam-installer.exe
> >
> > I made copies of these named opam, opam-admin, opam-installer and
> > reran
> >
> > make install.
> >
> > Now the error message is shorter
> >
> > -- begin
> >
> > OPAMROOT=/tmp/opam-install-install src/opam-installer --prefix /usr/local
> > opam.install
> > src\opam => /usr/local\bin\opam
> > Fatal error: exception Unix.Unix_error(20, "create_process", "/bin/sh")
> > Makefile:52: recipe for target 'install' failed
> > make: *** [install] Error 2
> >
> > -- end
> >
> > Here's a guess. The installation wants to execute files whose names do not
> > end
> > in ".exe", but create_process (on a Windows machine) fails because it
> > wants a file whose
> > name ends in ".exe". If my guess is right, I'm not sure how to fix the
> > problem.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> > Fatal error: exception Unix.Unix_error(20, "create_process", "/bin/sh")
>
> ===> Error 20 is Unix.ENOENT, which means "No such file or directory".
> That means it can't find "/bin/sh". Are you sure that you have
> "/bin/sh"?
If the program is "native windows", it cannot understand posix paths
like /bin/sh. It is a very likely issue in this context.
On Windows, you can ask to run either "foo" or "foo.exe" and you get the
same behaviour (well, iirc: you'd have to check the doc for
CreateProcess to be sure).
--
Adrien Nader
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-30 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-29 16:22 David Guaspari
2014-08-30 10:53 ` Philippe Wang
2014-08-30 11:28 ` Adrien Nader [this message]
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