On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:21:26PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Ultimately, I just have to make strace and cygcheck understand the >cygwin arguments and environment variables. Then we won't need this.
I just changed cygcheck.exe, and strace.exe so that they will play better when living in a directory which is mounted with the "-X" option. This requires new versions of the two programs as well as a new version of cygwin1.dll. Since cygcheck and strace will understand cygwin command line arguments and environment variables, this means that special mounts for these two programs will not be needed and the newly minted http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#TOC93 can eventually be simplified when cygwin 1.5.17 is released. I would appreciate it if people would check out the latest snapshot to verify if I actually got this working in all scenarios (directories mounted with -X, -x, not mounted at all, or mounted without -X and -x). Since the snapshot has changes to cygcheck.exe and strace.exe, this will entail downloading and installing the cygwin-inst-*.tar.bz2 file, extracting cygwin1.dll, cygcheck.exe, and strace.exe from it, and moving these files to the correct locations with non-cygwin commands. e.g.: c:\>bash bash$ cd /tmp bash$ mkdir deleteme bash$ cd deleteme bash$ wget http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20050508.tar.bz2 bash bash$ tar xjf cygwin-inst-20050508.tar.bz2 usr/bin/cygwin1.dll usr/bin/cygcheck.exe usr/bin/strace.exe bash$ cp /bin/cygwin1.dll /bin/cygwin1.dll.safe bash$ exit # terminate all cygwin processes c:\>copy c:\cygwin\tmp\deleteme\usr\bin\*.* c:\cygwin\bin c:\>bash bash$ rm -r /tmp/deleteme bash$ # play with strace/cygcheck ( The above is an *example* of what could be done to install the needed files. There may be typos in the example or it may not work perfectly on your system. It is intended as a *hint* for those who are savvy enough to test things without excessive amounts of hand holding. If you are not comfortable with UNIX commands like "wget" or "tar", please do not attempt this. If you do not know what a Windows command shell is or you cannot figure out how to run bash from the command shell or you are not comfortable with command shell commands like "copy" please do not try this. May cause intense itching. Discontinue if symptoms persist for more than a millennium. May suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds. Do not taunt the Cygwin snapshot. Not valid in Alaska or Tennessee. UNIX ® is a registered trademark of the Open Group in the United States and other countries. ) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
