Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Conrad T. Pino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CVS project compiles the Windows CVS binary with Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 which doesn't have a fchdir implementation which is used in save-cwd.c module. The comments say: Some systems lack fchdir altogether: e.g., OS/2, pre-2001 Cygwin,

RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-08 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Jim Meyering wrote: Is it an option to use a more modern/POSIX-compliant development environment on Windows? I know that Cygwin now has fchdir and it looks like MKS has support for it, too. If you opt to continue using Visual Studio 6 in spite of this, it must have some important

CVS Segmentation fault filling /tmp

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Forsyth
Hi: Using CVS 1.11.17 running as a pserver on UNIX AIX 5.1 we had a core dump of the CVS server when accessing with wincvs 1.3. Here is a core dump showing the routine causing the segmentation fault. We have not had a problem with the most recent version of tortoise but wincvs seems to be

Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-08 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim.Hyslop wrote: | Jim Meyering wrote: | | Is it an option to use a more modern/POSIX-compliant development | environment on Windows? I know that Cygwin now has fchdir and it | looks like MKS has support for it, too. | | | If you opt to continue

Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-08 Thread Frank Hemer
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:37, Derek Price wrote: Jim.Hyslop wrote: | Jim Meyering wrote: | Is it an option to use a more modern/POSIX-compliant development | environment on Windows? I know that Cygwin now has fchdir and it | looks like MKS has support for it, too. | | | If you opt to

Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Derek Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid I have to agree with Jim Hyslop. Whatever Microsoft's flaws, I still believe that some of our mutual user base is at least relatively innocent and should still be catered to. This is not about Microsoft per se, but simply about the lack of

Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-08 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Meyering wrote: | Derek Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I'm afraid I have to agree with Jim Hyslop. Whatever Microsoft's | flaws, I still believe that some of our mutual user base is at | least relatively innocent and should still be catered

Re: cvs is slooooooow with large directories

2005-03-08 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Jones wrote: | Andrew Morton writes: | | On a dual 2.7GHz power4, the cvs client has racked up an hour of | CPU time so far. There's something in there which is quadratic | (or worse) in the number of files in a directory. | | | Yes, the fix for

RE: windows-NT/mkconfig.pl windows-NT/fix-msvc-mak.pl change

2005-03-08 Thread Conrad T. Pino
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Derek, From: Derek Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've attached the diff. Conrad or somebody, would you mind verifying that after applying this patch (on WOE32, only the two named files will be relevant)... Please define the phrase two

lib/stdint.h intermediate file

2005-03-08 Thread Conrad T. Pino
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The build process on Solaris 8 Intel Edition seems to generate lib/stdint.h as an intermediate build product. Is there any objection to adding stdint.h to the lib/.cvsignore file? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.0.4

Re: lib/stdint.h intermediate file

2005-03-08 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conrad T. Pino wrote: | The build process on Solaris 8 Intel Edition seems to generate | lib/stdint.h as an intermediate build product. | | Is there any objection to adding stdint.h to the lib/.cvsignore | file? None whatsoever. :) Regards, Derek

Re: [bug-gnulib] GNULIB wait-process module.

2005-03-08 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any further thoughts on this patch? | 2005-03-04 Derek R. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | * lib/wait-process.h (wait_subprocess): Accept a new exitsignal | argument. * lib/wait-process.c (wait_subprocess): Always set | *exitsignal to 0 when present and

Re: windows-NT/mkconfig.pl windows-NT/fix-msvc-mak.pl change

2005-03-08 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conrad T. Pino wrote: | | Hi Derek, | | From: Derek Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I've attached the diff. Conrad or somebody, would you mind | verifying that after applying this patch (on WOE32, only the two | named files will be relevant)... |

RE: windows-NT/mkconfig.pl windows-NT/fix-msvc-mak.pl change

2005-03-08 Thread Conrad T. Pino
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Derek, From: Derek Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The two files are listed in the subject line. :) Oops, I need another cup of coffee!! :) First off, the problem cited in your output is not caused by the patch I just sent, but I'll

Re: [bug-gnulib] GNULIB wait-process module.

2005-03-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Derek Price wrote: Actually moving the code would be complicated and not symetrical. I dislike having a process responsible for disposing of temporary data it did not create. In the CVS client/server architecture, there are two servers. The first authenticates the client and interprets the

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-08 Thread Frank Hemer
Here is a more detailed description of the tag-extensions: Terminologie: Following the mainline (backwards): Starting from a specific rev. number X on the trunk or a branch, the line is followed backwards up to the first revision Z on the trunk. It doesn't matter if there are dead or missing