On 2013-07-01 20:08-0700 Austin English wrote:
In other words, while fixing Cygwin issues is a valuable effort, it
takes a lot of time and effort that is better spent elsewhere.
Hi Austin:
I agree that fixing Cygwin on Wine issues will take some considerable
initial effort learning about
On 2013-06-29 18:33, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
Those have been mentioned before here, and I have looked at them.
Cygwin is a very large collection of software so the number of bugs
that are reported does not seem excessive to me, and for my personal
needs (building and testing software on the
On 2013-07-01 06:13+0100 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
[...]In terms of relative importance, consider that mingw (both native and cross) GNU toolchain works well,
the toolchain part of cygwin is hardly a priority.
Once again you are implying the MinGW GNU toolchain is better than the
Cygwin GNU
On 2013-07-01 18:13+0200 Peter Rosin wrote:
On 2013-06-29 18:33, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
Those have been mentioned before here, and I have looked at them.
Cygwin is a very large collection of software so the number of bugs
that are reported does not seem excessive to me, and for my personal
needs
On 2013-06-28 23:37, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Fri, 28/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
... However, because of the Cygwin fork
bug, Cygwin on
Wine has largely been untested for the last three years so
this could
be a good opportunity to do such testing for the
--- On Mon, 1/7/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
... I hope your negative
attitude
toward the Cygwin toolchain is not typical of such
developers. After
all, even though the Windows GNU toolchain code bases have
diverged
between the two groups of developers, there is still
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:13:26PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote:
I would like to point out that it seems that the current bug does not
appear to be *in* setup.exe, but rather occurs when setup.exe runs
a bash post-install script, where the bash.exe that interprets the
script depends on
On 2013-07-01 19:58+0100 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Mon, 1/7/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
... I hope your negative
attitude
toward the Cygwin toolchain is not typical of such
developers. After
all, even though the Windows GNU toolchain code bases have
diverged
between
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
On 2013-07-01 19:58+0100 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Mon, 1/7/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
... I hope your negative
attitude
toward the Cygwin toolchain is not typical of such
developers.
On 29.06.2013 23:34, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Sat, 29/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
...
Also, running cygwin on wine, compared to other windows
software
which has no unix/linux equivalents, is hardly a priority.
That is obviously personally true for you. And for
--- On Fri, 28/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
... However, because of the Cygwin fork
bug, Cygwin on
Wine has largely been untested for the last three years so
this could
be a good opportunity to do such testing for the combination
of Cygwin
(with the fork fix) and
--- On Sun, 30/6/13, André Hentschel n...@dawncrow.de wrote:
On 29.06.2013 23:34, Hin-Tak Leung
wrote:
--- On Sat, 29/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca
wrote:
...
Also, running cygwin on wine, compared to other
windows
software
which has no unix/linux equivalents, is
--- On Sat, 29/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
...
The Mingw GNU toolchain works wells under wine. The
cygwin GNU toolchain don't, the last time I checked.
That may be true, but the best way to make that point about
the Cygwin
GNU toolchain is with official Cygwin bug
On 2013-06-29 11:57+0100 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Sat, 29/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
...
The Mingw GNU toolchain works wells under wine. The
cygwin GNU toolchain don't, the last time I checked.
That may be true, but the best way to make that point about
the
--- On Sat, 29/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
...
Also, running cygwin on wine, compared to other windows
software
which has no unix/linux equivalents, is hardly a priority.
That is obviously personally true for you. And for my
personal needs
Cygwin on Wine is a
On 2013-06-27 09:39-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
[...]I asked
Arjen Markus, a PLplot colleague of mine with Cygwin contacts, to try
and get the debugging process started with the Cygwin developers. The
response http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-06/msg00666.html to his
post looks quite promising.
--- On Thu, 27/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
On 2013-06-26 18:14-0700 Alan W.
Irwin wrote:
Note in retrospect I realized that this period leading
up to the
release of Wine-1.6.0 has been a lousy time to ask wine
developers
with Cygwin expertise to take on the
On 2013-06-28 22:07+0100 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Thu, 27/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
[...]I asked
Arjen Markus, a PLplot colleague of mine with Cygwin
contacts, to try
and get the debugging process started with the Cygwin
developers. The
response
--- On Fri, 28/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
... But I _know_ the MSYS version of cat works fine on recent
Wine just
like the rest of the GNU toolchain used for building
software so if
the MSYS and Cygwin GNU toolchain code bases have not
diverged too
much it should
On 2013-06-28 23:13+0100 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Fri, 28/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
... But I _know_ the MSYS version of cat works fine on recent
Wine just
like the rest of the GNU toolchain used for building
software so if
the MSYS and Cygwin GNU toolchain code
On 2013-06-28 22:37+0100 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Fri, 28/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
... However, because of the Cygwin fork
bug, Cygwin on
Wine has largely been untested for the last three years so
this could
be a good opportunity to do such testing for the
On 2013-06-26 18:14-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
Note in retrospect I realized that this period leading up to the
release of Wine-1.6.0 has been a lousy time to ask wine developers
with Cygwin expertise to take on the additional distraction of getting
the debugging process for bug 24018 started
--- On Tue, 25/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
snipped
I currently have no experience with Cygwin and my only real
interest
in Cygwin on Wine is it theoretically provides an
alternative build
platform to my present successful work with the combination
of MinGW,
MSYS,
On 2013-06-26 23:43+0100 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Tue, 25/6/13, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
snipped
I currently have no experience with Cygwin and my only real
interest
in Cygwin on Wine is it theoretically provides an
alternative build
platform to my present successful
Andrey Turkin has stated at
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24018 that this is really a
Cygwin bug. I frankly don't understand the technical details
but his current test (an infinite loop with Cygwin fork
calls) may need some beefing up to convince the Cygwin developers they
have
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