Re: [Mingw-msys] Cannot execute script in current folder (in attempt to build guile)

[Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 03:37 +1100, Michael Abbott wrote:
> $ ./msys-build-guile guile-1.8.2.tar.gz 
> sh: ./msys-build-guile: No such file or directory
> 
> msys-build-guile is definitely there, but for some reason it won't
> execute.  What could cause this to happen? 

Presumably it is a shell script?  Does it have a shebang on its first
line?  (i.e. does the first line start with `#! /bin/sh', (without the
quotes, and the `#!' in columns 1-2))?  It needs that to make MSYS view
it as executable, since it lacks a qualifying file name extension.

HTH,
Keith.


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