Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-03 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I should emphasize that the reason this is important is because the XFree86-bin-icons package calls cygpath in this manner and it freezes setup.exe when the postinstall or preremove script gets run. So, there is current breakage with this. It is not a hypothetical situation. Harold Harold L

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-03 Thread Alan Miles
without any freeze ups. Alan -Original Message- From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 3, 2003 13:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cygx Subject: Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise I should emphasize

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-03 Thread Alan Miles
without any freeze ups. Alan -Original Message- From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 3, 2003 13:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cygx Subject: Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise I should emphasize

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-03 Thread Alan Miles
without any freeze ups. Alan -Original Message- From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 3, 2003 13:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cygx Subject: Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise I should emphasize

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 14:19, Alan Miles wrote: All, I concur - I have a couple of private packages that I build, and then use a local copy of upset to create the setup.ini file. My packages are ** NOT ** XFree86 related, and I have the same type of $(cygpath -S) call in my postinstall