Re: [Gnu-arch-users] cygwin: once more

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 09:28, Andrew Voznytsa wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I tried to build arch (v. 1.1pre9) using cygwin. I got executable, but  
> 'make test'  failed. I'm interesting if anyone succeeded to pass this test.
> Another thing, I run through mail list searching for Cygwin/Windows 
> related posts and found that everyone mentioned problem with MAX_PATH only.
> Is it really only one problem on Windows? If no - could someone write a 
> few words about situation with arch on Cygwin/Windows?

There are a few build quirks, already covered in the list.

Once built, there are two quirks, 
1) an open file rename attempt (already patches, and IIRC merged into
pre9).
2) a limitation in cygwin that prevents long file paths beyond ~ 260
chars - minus your mount point path length.

For 2) there is a draft patch floating around on this list. 

Rob
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