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From: Philippe Wang <mail@philippewang.info>
To: David Guaspari <dguaspari@atcorp.com>
Cc: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] unable to install opam under cywgin
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:53:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAFfW_r=kCwRuCSQh6F4eirxRpfXSJmUHpPYyTaDbVc=aEvN-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005c01cfc3a5$dc247270$946d5750$@com>

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"?

-- 
Philippe Wang
   mail@philippewang.info

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-30 10:53 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 [this message]
2014-08-30 11:28   ` Adrien Nader

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