There is a new snapshot (v 2.249) available that has Ralf's patch in it. Rob
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2002 9:15 PM > To: Nicholas Wourms; Robert Collins; 'Stephan H. Schug'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: KDE 2.2.2 beta1 released > > > > > The same report as before. When it gets to the kdehelp file with a > > filename of ~83 characters, it goes into an infinite loop > saying it has to > > move the file to make the directory. Didn't ralf submit a > patch for this? > > I haven't seen it show up on the cygwin-apps-cvs mailing > list... I'm on > > windows ME, so it is possible this is a Windows ME gotcha, > I encourage you > > tho whip up a virtualpc session and see for yourself if you > can. If not, > > I'll try my best to help, but C (not OOP C++) is the extent of my > > knowledge... > > > recent Setup.exe releases are not able to handle files with a > full pathnames > length about 100 characters. The reason is, that for tar file > name length over > 100 characters the GNU long name extension is used, but > unfortunally the > setup.exe'S implementation contains a bug in this case. > > This should happen for all windows variants. > > Ralf > > > >
