[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ...
From: |
Davide Libenzi |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ... |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:59:32 -0700 (PDT) |
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Karl Waclawek wrote:
>
> > the build mysteriously fail the first of second time, and then it succeed!?
> > The `make test` fails in the test suite that perform fs-related thingies.
> > I ran a `make install` in any case hoping that those tests were a little
> > bit too aggressive, but they weren't. Arch indeed fails during the tagging
> > method selection by saying that the file ,,tagging-method cannot be moved
> > onto =tagging-method (that exist in the first place). Looking at Cygwin's
> > syscall.cc it seems that they use the correct function (MoveFileEx()) in
> > my system (XP), so I am running out of options. Is it possible to have
> > Arch correctly working on Cygwin?
>
> Look at recent archive messages:
> - You have to force use of bash on Cygwin (as sh is ash).
> (I renamed sh to ash and turned sh into a soft link pointing to bash)
Already done, thx.
> - You have to apply Matthias Hoelzls patch for the tagging-method issue
> (it somehow didn't make it into the release)
Ouch, missed.
> - There is till a Windows only problem with the fact that for any file
> your total path length must not exceed 260 characters (MAX_PATH)
Is it a Cygwin limitation? Don't they use the "\\?\" prefix for paths,
that enable them to go up to 32000 chars?
> The steps above should get you going.
> make test will still fail at .../hackerlab/tests/unidata-tests,
> but the reason seems that the files ,tmp and ,tmp2 have different
> kinds of line breaks, but are otherwise identical (as the test requires)
Do you have an usable version after those fixes?
- Davide
- [Gnu-arch-users] Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Davide Libenzi, 2003/10/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Karl Waclawek, 2003/10/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ...,
Davide Libenzi <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Karl Waclawek, 2003/10/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Miles Bader, 2003/10/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Karl Waclawek, 2003/10/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Miles Bader, 2003/10/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Karl Waclawek, 2003/10/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Robert Collins, 2003/10/07
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Miles Bader, 2003/10/07
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., Robert Collins, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Planned move to Arch (cygwin issue) ..., John Kinson, 2003/10/07