On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Brian Keener wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > Still:
> > > * Not tested on Win95. It's a fairly low level change, and I have 'this
> > > much' (holds thumb and forefinger very close together) confidence that
> > > we won't get surprised.
> >
> > Uh, can someone test this on Win95? I only have a Win98 machine handy
> > (and tested on that). Thanks.
>
> Okay, I got my Win95 laptop up to date, got setup built with the patch applied
> and it does appear to work. Running setup with the patch on my Win2k laptop
> and on my Win95 laptop and installing package _update-info-dir version 00148-1
> on 3/09 resulted in the creation of a file called setup.log.postinstall in the
> /var/log directory with the following contents on the Win95 laptop:
>
> 2003/03/09 22:36:25 Running: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
> /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
> 2003/03/09 22:36:56 Done: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
> /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
>
> This morning I updated the new automake, terminfo, and _update-info-dir and the
> log was appended to to look like the following:
>
> 2003/03/09 22:36:25 Running: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
> /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
> 2003/03/09 22:36:56 Done: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
> /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
> 2003/03/10 10:56:53 Running: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
> /etc/postinstall/automake-devel.sh
> 2003/03/10 10:56:58 Done: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
> /etc/postinstall/automake-devel.sh
> 2003/03/10 10:56:58 Running: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
> /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
> 2003/03/10 10:57:00 Done: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
> 2003/03/10 10:57:00 Running: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
> /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
> 2003/03/10 10:57:27 Done: D:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
> /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
>
> The above results are in sync with the results I noticed on my Win2k laptop as
> well.
>
> If you need further checks let me know.
> bk
Brian,
Thanks a lot for testing! Most postinstall scripts run silently, so what
you're seeing is the output of printf's. If you could try it with
scripts that actually output something (e.g., iu-config.sh, gcc-mingw.sh,
post-texmf.sh, profile.sh), you'd see if the output is properly
redirected.
Igor
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