On 8/24/2020 5:43 PM, Roland Roberts wrote:
I have one machine, a company machine which makes it hard to post
details, which is running Windows 7. We run cygwin as our development
environment for Java, but Java is installed as a Windows program. The
scripts that do the builds are bash scripts that pull down updated
code from svn, then run unit tests. All of the cygwin bits work fine,
but when Java is launched to run the unit tests, it runs into problems
with reading files that were created as symlinks in cygwin. Note that
this does *not* happen with cygwin 3.1.4, but does with higher
versions (up through 3.1.7).
Possibly related, the permissions on installed files is odd if I roll
back from > 3.1.4 to 3.1.4. The files that were updated with the later
version can't be deleted. The permissions on, for example, an Emacs
upgraded under 3.1.6 or 3.1.7 show "Unknown User" when I downgrade
just cygwin and I can't run it. I have to upgrade cygwin, uninstall
Emacs, downgrade cygwin then reinstall.
Other users in the company have had their machines upgraded/replaced
with Windows 10 and don't seem to have this issue. Eventually, mine
will be replaced as well, but in the meantime, later versions of
cygwin can't be used.
Okay, I have no idea what form of dyslexia struck me when I wrote all
those version numbers, but I've edited the above since it wasn't 1.x but
3.1.x
roland
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