Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Rajesh Balakrishnan
--- Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? Why not get rid of the complicated tar = bz2 stack and just check for .tar.bz2 and use a simplified approach then,

Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote: Since postinstall seemed to be a candidate for the hang, I'm wondering if we could tap at the following code in script.cc In run(), there is an infinite wait WaitForSingleObject (pi.hProcess, INFINITE); Should we use a wait period like

Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? I've finally managed to reproduce it! (today) Let's see what tonight's debugging brings to light. Max.

Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 22 15:49, Max Bowsher wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? Why not get rid of the complicated tar = bz2 stack and just check for .tar.bz2 and use a

Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:43:38PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? I've finally managed to reproduce it! (today) Let's see what tonight's debugging brings to light. Woo hoo.

bc and readline

2004-12-22 Thread Lapo Luchini
man bc states that bc can be compiled to support readline library. This could be very handy.. why cygwin's bc does not? Problems specific to Cygwin or simply it is not default and no one felt it necessary? Lapo -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it

Tetex-2.0.2-15: source tarball invalid

2004-12-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
BTW, the tetex-bin source tarball is invalid. For example, the directory tetex-bin-2.0.2-15/texk/oxdvik/texmf is a symlink to ../xdvik/texmf; however, the tarball contains files in the symlinked directory (which seem to be replicas of the files in the target directory, FWIW). Igor --