Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 3 21:12, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > >> How feasible would it be to generate an alternate setup.ini > >> (setup-snapshots.ini or something) and include the snapshots in the > >> actual mirror with a switch to setup to select the alternate file? > >> When we finally get

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: >> How feasible would it be to generate an alternate setup.ini >> (setup-snapshots.ini or something) and include the snapshots in the >> actual mirror with a switch to setup to select the alternate file? >> When we finally get to it with OCaml's CI, that is probably how I

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 08:37, David Allsopp wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Sep 1 16:41, David Allsopp wrote: > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Some of the path handling is seriously crippled as soon as you start > > > > using backslashes, and that's a delipberate decision and won't > > > >

RE: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-02 Thread David Allsopp
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 1 16:41, David Allsopp wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Some of the path handling is seriously crippled as soon as you start > > > using backslashes, and that's a delipberate decision and won't > > > change, even after fixing the aforementioned bug. > > >

RE: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-02 Thread David Allsopp
cyg Simple wrote: > On 9/1/2018 5:52 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, David Allsopp! > > > >>> In terms of this OCAML build system problem: > >>> > >>> Please fix your build system. Do not mix POSIX and Win32 paths, use > >>> POSIX paths only. Backslashes are *no* drop-in replacement for

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread cyg Simple
On 9/1/2018 5:52 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, David Allsopp! > >>> In terms of this OCAML build system problem: >>> >>> Please fix your build system. Do not mix POSIX and Win32 paths, use POSIX >>> paths only. Backslashes are *no* drop-in replacement for slashes. > >> The "problem" for

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, David Allsopp! >> In terms of this OCAML build system problem: >> >> Please fix your build system. Do not mix POSIX and Win32 paths, use POSIX >> paths only. Backslashes are *no* drop-in replacement for slashes. > The "problem" for us is more subtle than this. The program which is

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Houder
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 21:23:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Yes, you would run the chance that you would have to mend an official > > release several times ... but is that bad? > > The idea of test releases is to avoid problem like the one we're discussing > here in official releases. I'd like to

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Bryan Phelps
> As for the bug in question: I pushed a patch which should fix this > issue. I created new developer snapshots and uploaded them to > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/. Please give them a try. Thank you Corinna for the quick fix and investigation! I set up an environment to test it out:

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 1 20:08, Houder wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 17:54:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I'll fix this and release a 2.11.1 soon, but I still have a question: > > > > Why do I push out test releases if nobody cares? > > Yes, I know, it is a _hypothetical_question_. You do not really expect > an

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 1 16:41, David Allsopp wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Some of the path handling is seriously crippled as soon as you start using > > backslashes, and that's a delipberate decision and won't change, even after > > fixing the aforementioned bug. > > I don't quite follow this - does

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Houder
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 17:54:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I'll fix this and release a 2.11.1 soon, but I still have a question: > > Why do I push out test releases if nobody cares? Yes, I know, it is a _hypothetical_question_. You do not really expect an answer. However it was my thought exactly.

RE: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread David Allsopp
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 1 09:56, Andreas Hauptmann wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 01:24:49 + > > Bryan Phelps wrote: > > > > > I'll continue to look around for a more minimal repro, > > > > The normalization of paths with backslashes has changed. > > > > The following doesn't work any

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 1 09:56, Andreas Hauptmann wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 01:24:49 + > Bryan Phelps wrote: > > > I'll continue to look around for a more minimal repro, > > The normalization of paths with backslashes has changed. > > The following doesn't work any longer: > > cd /tmp > stat

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 01.09.2018 um 10:10 schrieb Marco Atzeri: Am 01.09.2018 um 03:24 schrieb Bryan Phelps: Hello, Thank you for all the work on Cygwin! I've been using it to spin up an environment to build the OCaml compiler / toolchain, and it was working great. However, today, all our CI builds

RE: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread David Allsopp
Marco Atzeri wrote: > Am 01.09.2018 um 03:24 schrieb Bryan Phelps: > > Hello, > > > > > > Thank you for all the work on Cygwin! I've been using it to spin up an > environment to build the OCaml compiler / toolchain, and it was working great. > > > > > > However, today, all our CI builds

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 01.09.2018 um 03:24 schrieb Bryan Phelps: Hello, Thank you for all the work on Cygwin! I've been using it to spin up an environment to build the OCaml compiler / toolchain, and it was working great. However, today, all our CI builds mysteriously started failing - at first, I suspected

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 01.09.2018 um 03:24 schrieb Bryan Phelps: Hello, In the meantime - is there a way we can pin the cygwin package to the 2.10.0-1 version, to unblock our builds? Thank you! Bryan What is the problem in installing the previous version of the package ? --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Andreas Hauptmann
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 01:24:49 + Bryan Phelps wrote: > I'll continue to look around for a more minimal repro, The normalization of paths with backslashes has changed. The following doesn't work any longer: cd /tmp stat "..\bin\file.exe" # or stat "..\\bin\\file.exe" This however

Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-08-31 Thread Bryan Phelps
Hello, Thank you for all the work on Cygwin! I've been using it to spin up an environment to build the OCaml compiler / toolchain, and it was working great. However, today, all our CI builds mysteriously started failing - at first, I suspected it was a problem with AppVeyor, but I also