On 2009-03-02 10:06 -0700, zooko wrote: > I'm responsible for that "cygwin" version, so I'll work with you to > debug this if you want. Did you get to this failure by using my zip > file and following the instructions on: > > http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/ > Binaries#head-735c03f140af5a704e05887acfa44ea0b9b43146
Yes, up to the point of configuring ssh, which I didn't yet even bother with. And I really don't like setting up keys for every computer, now that with hashed (and 2.0?) repos ssh passwords work just fine with normal *nix builds. > >>after choosing the patches. And this 'Pushing to "c:/foo/bar"': > >>doesn't look like a _cygwin_ build, but a native Windows program. > >>It even fails to find my ~/.darcs/author. > > I think it looks for an environment variable named "HOME", or > possible the Windowsy equivalent USERPROFILE. neither/.darcs/author is recognised. I tried to strace, but got no output! > Nope. I spent a couple of hours trying to port it once. The > problems I hit were all of the familiar form "check for platform type > and then configure a bunch of settings for that platform instead of > testing each capability separately to see if it works". This > familiar pattern fails when the "platform type" is 'windowsy', but it > actually provides a bunch of unix functions that normal Windows > doesn't provide. Maybe one would have better luck with some simpler compiler? Has darcs been built with the others? -- Tuomo _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
