Re: is using old make.exe (3.80) (cygwin 1.5.x) within cygwin 1.7.x OK

2011-08-10 Thread Rob Walker
You could also use a patched make 3.81 compiled for Cygwin 1.7. http://sites.rwalker.com/cygwin/ -Rob On 8/9/11 9:58 PM, Heiko Elger wrote: > Hello, > > cause of colon problems we have to use old make version 3.80 in cygwin 1.7.x. > The binary make.exe is a copy of cygwin 1.5.x installation. >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Rob Walker
On 8/10/2010 10:38 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:04:47PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: On 8/10/2010 1:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 01:13:41PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: On Cygwin, make-3.82 supports DOS paths by default. I&#

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Rob Walker
On 8/10/2010 1:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 01:13:41PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: On Cygwin, make-3.82 supports DOS paths by default. I'm curious about what work might be involved in re-enabling the --ms-dos option, and I'd like to help, if I can.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Rob Walker
On 8/10/2010 10:54 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I wanted to let everyone know that I'm aware of the fact that make-3.82 has been released. However, given the number of reported problems in the make bugs mailing list, I don't plan on releasing a new version of GNU make until the dust has settled

make-3.82 available

2010-07-31 Thread Rob Walker
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/make-w32/2010-07/msg00010.html I've downloaded and built GNU make 3.82 for Cygwin. The packages are available here: http://sites.google.com/a/rwalker.com/cygwin/make-381-DOS/make-3.82-1-src.tar.bz2 http://sites.google.com/a/rwalker.com/cygwin/make-381-DOS/mak

Re: make-3.81-4

2009-12-29 Thread Rob Walker
Edward Lam wrote: Rob Walker wrote: It's been almost a year and a half since I made a request to have Cygwin's GNU make updated with the upstream patches for colons in dependencies and VPATH directives: Is this patch submitted upstream to the gmake project? I imagine it

Re: make-3.81-4

2009-12-28 Thread Rob Walker
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 01:06:48PM -0800, Rob Walker wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:16:59PM -0800, Rob Walker wrote: It's been almost a year and a half since I made a request to have Cygwin's GNU make update

Re: make-3.81-4

2009-12-28 Thread Rob Walker
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:16:59PM -0800, Rob Walker wrote: It's been almost a year and a half since I made a request to have Cygwin's GNU make updated with the upstream patches for colons in dependencies and VPATH directives: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/c

Re: make 3.81 bug - error: multiple target patterns. Stop.

2009-03-31 Thread Rob Walker
A complete set of Cygwin's make-3.81 packages with the relevant upstream patches applied is also available here: http://sites.rwalker.com/cygwin/ -Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: problem with make-3.81

2009-02-27 Thread Rob Walker
Or, you could unpack a patched up version of Cygwin's GNU make-3.81, available here: http://sites.rwalker.com/cygwin -Rob Dave Korn wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: ycollet@ wrote: I think Dave wants you to get the mingw-make from the mingw project site :-) Yes, I fill that.

Re: CYGWIN=ntsec, "cp -a", and NT acls

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
Thanks for your patience, Brian. -Rob Brian Dessent wrote: Rob Walker wrote: [RGW] Hm, looks simple... Why isn't this part of "cp -a" ? You have to understand the history of things. In the classic unix world, a file has an owner, a group, a mode, and several timest

Re: CYGWIN=ntsec, "cp -a", and NT acls

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
Brian Dessent wrote: Rob Walker wrote: The output of the examination above shows me that "cp -a" doesn't preserve Full Control for the owner on the copied file. Is this the expected behavior under ntsec? If I use CYGWIN=nontsec, Full Control is preserved. Well cp is

Re: CYGWIN=ntsec, "cp -a", and NT acls

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
Brian Dessent wrote: Rob Walker wrote: # make it read-only the windows way attrib +R ${FILE} Note that the +R attribute (and attributes in general) has nothing to do with ACLs or security, it's a completely different concept. FAT for instance supports R/H/S/A attribute

Re: colons in Cygwin (was Re: make-3.81-3 (ITA??))

2008-07-18 Thread Rob Walker
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 16:54, Rob Walker wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Colons in filenames are fine and will be supported with cygwin-1.7. But c:/ it will not map to the root of some c drive, it will map to the subdir "c:" For now we had to use managed mounts for

Re: colons in Cygwin (was Re: make-3.81-3 (ITA??))

2008-07-17 Thread Rob Walker
Reini Urban wrote: Rob Walker schrieb: I didn't mean for anyone (especially the package maintainer) to infer that make wasn't being actively supported. My apologies for any misunderstanding. I'm very interested in your opinions on colons in paths. I'd prefer to hear di

colons in Cygwin (was Re: make-3.81-3 (ITA??))

2008-07-17 Thread Rob Walker
l 16, 2008 at 04:51:02PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: I'd like to get make updated to accept paths with colons on Cygwin. The patch that enables this behavior has been available and in fairly wide use for almost 2 years. I've read http://cygwin.com/setup.html. I've followed the instruc

Re: make-3.81 update?

2007-05-24 Thread Rob Walker
Brian Dessent wrote: Rob Walker wrote: My situation is this: I cannot advocate an off-the-rack Cygwin installation for my team or my customers. My current choices are: 1. supply an in-house compiled Cygwin version of make-3.81 (without cygwin1.dll, of course) that has the patch

Re: make-3.81 update?

2007-05-24 Thread Rob Walker
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:49:18PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182&root=make&view=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up?

make-3.81 update?

2007-05-24 Thread Rob Walker
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182&root=make&view=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? Thanks, Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: redefining $HOME

2007-04-10 Thread Rob Walker
I use mount: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> mount C:\Documents and Settings on /home type system (binmode) C:\apps\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\apps\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) C:\apps\cygwin on / type system (binmode) C:\dev on /dev type system (binmode) C:\tmp on /tmp ty

Re: bash scripting problem

2006-12-01 Thread Rob Walker
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Rob Walker Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:29 PM Subject: Re: bash scripting problem Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Andrew Louie on 12/1/2006 3:17 PM: You have DOS line endings in these files. Use

Re: bash scripting problem

2006-12-01 Thread Rob Walker
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Andrew Louie on 12/1/2006 3:17 PM: You have DOS line endings in these files. Use 'd2u' to remove them. Thanks! I would have never known that, now, can i run d2u on every file in my installation? N

Re: make-3.81 update?

2006-11-16 Thread Rob Walker
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Rob Walker wrote: Bill Hoffman wrote: Rob Walker wrote: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182&root=make&view=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? When m

Re: make-3.81 update?

2006-11-16 Thread Rob Walker
Bill Hoffman wrote: Rob Walker wrote: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182&root=make&view=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? When make 3.82 comes out. Thanks. Is this imm

make-3.81 update?

2006-11-16 Thread Rob Walker
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182&root=make&view=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? Thanks, Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: igncr vs text mode mounts, performance vs compatibility

2006-10-18 Thread Rob Walker
ility" is currently a (possibly serious for me) stumbling block. What motivated today's work was the bash 3.2 announcement, which (apparently) doesn't make igncr the default. Eric, what's your current thinking on this topic? -Rob Brian Dessent wrote: Rob Walker wrote

igncr vs text mode mounts, performance vs compatibility

2006-10-18 Thread Rob Walker
r). Less than 10% penalty on this perverse benchmark (handling _nothing_ but linefeeds) seems like a small price for compatibility. -Rob Rob Walker wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/12/2006, Rob Walker wrote: If you're referring to the performance gain realized, I think it coul

Re: shopt igncr not working

2006-10-18 Thread Rob Walker
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/12/2006, Rob Walker wrote: If you're referring to the performance gain realized, I think it could have been accomplished (if not as trivially) without breaking CRLF handling. This seems to be indicated in other posts, ones that talk about reworking

Re: shopt igncr not working

2006-10-13 Thread Rob Walker
Matthew Woehlke wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE, thanks! Rob Walker wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Rob Walker wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Rob Walker wrote: Many, many other cross-platform products make allowances for CRLF (version control systems are a prime example) to

Re: shopt igncr not working

2006-10-12 Thread Rob Walker
Matthew Woehlke wrote: Rob Walker wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:17:02PM +0300, Antti Tyrv?inen wrote: Hi! Installed latest cygwin and I met problems with bash and scripts which are in DOS format. $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.17(9)-release (i686-pc

Re: shopt igncr not working

2006-10-12 Thread Rob Walker
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:20:22PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:17:02PM +0300, Antti Tyrv?inen wrote: Hi! Installed latest cygwin and I met problems with bash and scripts which are in DOS format

Re: shopt igncr not working

2006-10-12 Thread Rob Walker
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:17:02PM +0300, Antti Tyrv?inen wrote: Hi! Installed latest cygwin and I met problems with bash and scripts which are in DOS format. $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.17(9)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Fo

subversion 1.0.6 in windows 98

2004-09-24 Thread Rob Walker
ck': Resource temporarily unavailable [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/tmp/svntest]$ The same happens with some (but not all) of the other svn commands. I get no errors with the same commands on Linux. strace gives no useful output as it seems to crash (but I've attached it anyway) Is this a cygwin