...is da bomb! For the first time, building libtool and running its 5 hour long test suite is easier on 1.7 than on 1.5! I have never, until now, been able to run that test suite unattended on 1.7, since every two or three tests I previously was hit with the dreaded "*** unable to remap" problem.
This led to the caveman superstitious ritual of rebooting, shutting down all cygwin services, running peflagsall and rebaseall, then rebooting again, restarting all daemons...and then I could restart the libtool testsuite again where it left off. Without the caveman ritual, once it hit "*** unable to remap" it would never work again. Of course, then libtool would complete another two or three tests, and die with "*** unable to remap" again. This procedure turned a 5-hour lightly-attended ordeal into a two or three day heavily attended nightmare. But...NO MORE! Now, with cygwin-1.7.0-50, running the libtool testsuite runs to successful completion in 5 hours or so, but COMPLETELY UNATTENDED. I can't tell you how ecstatic that makes me. Now, back in cygwin-1.5-land, the test suite still must be lightly attended. There are a few tests in which executables which depend on DLLs are deliberately launched in such a way that they can't find their DLLs. Under Vista (thanks to its "improvements") this means that you get 6 popups concerning "Foo has stopped working. Do you want Vista to search for a solution" each and every time this happens -- and the whole testsuite stops until you click cancel. So -- for the first time since I got the new computer with Vista, I can now run the libtool testsuite totally unattended...like I used to be able to do with XP and cygwin-1.5. Yay!!!! Great job, Corinna (and, I believe, Eric is responsible for cygwin-1.7 now capturing those "can't find DLL" errors and turning them into normal console messages rather than allowing Win32 to "handle" them with its stupid modal popups). -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/