Re: cygwin breakage

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> > The combination of Peter's recent two patches:
> >
> > 45-peter-eval_show.patch
> > 46-peter-revert_eval_show.patch
> >
> > Which, in the end, results simply in
> >
> > --- ltmain.m4sh.1       2004-10-15 10:25:26.140625000 -0400
> > +++ ltmain.m4sh 2004-10-15 10:25:59.390625000 -0400
> > @@ -5135,7 +5135,8 @@
>
>
> > -         $show "$cmd"
> > +         func_quote_for_eval "$cmd"
> > +         eval \$show \"$func_quote_for_eval_result\"
>
>
> > manages to break these regression test on cygwin
>
>
> > +FAIL: mdemo-make.test
>
>
> > +FAIL: mdemo-dryrun.test
>
>
> > +FAIL: mdemo-make.test
>
>
> > Peter, what EXACTLY were you trying to fix?  Was something actually 
> > broken, or did the previous WORKING code offend your sense of 
> > elegance? (No, I'm not real happy).
>
>
> This successfully fixed the (purely aesthetic) bug recently reported by 
> the sleepycat folks on Mac OS X :(.
> Sorry that you are unhappy, I will revert the change after work tonight, 
> but I am curious as to how exactly it is failing. Could you send the 
> relevant bits of VERBOSE output?
>
> > This patch DOES harm.  Please revert or fix it.
>
> Yes, yes. Okay.

No, no!  Let's not revert it.  Otherwise we will hit exactly the same
problem in HEAD when we first try to use it on Cygwin.

In a moment of madness (it must this flu I have), I'm trying to install 
virtual PC on my mac, so I can install windows 98 on it, so I can 
install cygwin on that, so I can install libtool branch-2-0 on that. 
I'll see if I can figure out what is going on.

Setup.exe has been running the texmf postinstall script for over an hour
now.  I'm going to bed.  Hopefully it will be done by morning... :-(

Cheers,
        Gary.
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