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Re: cygwin breakage
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Charles Wilson |
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Re: cygwin breakage |
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Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:18:54 -0400 |
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Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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.
Then what is the purpose of having a branch-2-0 vs. HEAD? We finally got
branch-2-0 working on cygwin; yet one destabilizing change and poof!
three failures and eight skips.
I've no problems with leaving Peter's stuff in HEAD; at least there we
have some time to debug it. But I'm fearful of an impending 2.0 release
(that's why there's a release branch, right?) where any random "cleanup"
or "cosmetic" patch can break existing functionality.
If it's a release branch, treat it like a release branch. If it's not,
the make it HEAD, move HEAD to "garys-favorite-playground" and be done
with it.
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.
That's good new. INSANE. But good.
It takes me about an hour to bootstrap, build, and run the test suite on
libtool/cygwin, on an ath64 3000 (~ 1.8GHz clock speed). I tremble in
fear: virtual PC. <shudder>
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... :-(
I don't have cygwin's tetex installed, but the texmf postinstall script
does this:
texconfig rehash
texconfig confall
texconfig rehash
texconfig init
so I can see why it might take a while...
--
Chuck