Re: Cygwin tester needed

2003-03-26 Thread Stefan Bodewig 
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Stefan Moebius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 warning: unportable BRE: `^/.*': using `^' as the first character of
 the basic regular expression is not portable;

That's funny.

The GNU man pages of expr(1) are a bit vague here (they talk about
anchored expressions in context of the : operator) - at least the
man pages installed on my RedHat 7.3 box.

The FreeBSD and Mac OS X pages state that a leading ^ would be added
implicitly and it seems to work on Solaris as well.  So I think we'll
go without the leading ^.  This seems to be POSIX.2 conformant as
well.

 So basically, the modification works as expected. 

Great, thanks.

Stefan

Cygwin tester needed

2003-03-25 Thread Stefan Bodewig 
Hi,

please take a look at
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17721.  I can
reprodice this bug, but I'm afraid that the proposed patch will break
Cygwin - as I have no idea how it handles absolute paths.

The change would be in line 54 of the ant wrapper script (CVS HEAD),
instead of 

if expr $link : '.*/.*'  /dev/null; then

we'd use

if expr $link : '^/.*'  /dev/null; then

Oh, to run into this code, you must not set ANT_HOME and the script
you invoke must be a symlink (is this possible on Cygwin?) to the real
script.

Stefan

Re: Cygwin tester needed

2003-03-25 Thread J.Pietschmann 
Stefan Bodewig wrote:
[rearranged]
 you invoke must be a symlink (is this possible on Cygwin?)
Cygwin apparently has its own symlink mechanism. From my current
installation, the content of /cygwin/bin/aclocal-1.7 is
  !symlink../autotool/devel/bin/aclocal-1.7
Note that there are also the .lnk files inherited from Win95,
which are interpreted by Explorer components but probably
not handled by Cygwin (I didn't try), and NTFS has also its
own capability for symlinks, though I doubt this was ever
used for production.
Cygwin - as I have no idea how it handles absolute paths.
The problem is that drive letter+colon combinations can be
interpreted as a path, you can e.g. do
  ls c:
and get the dir listing of your C drive. Valid drive letters can
change dynamically both due to innvoking mount/umount commands and
Windows drive mounts.
Internally such names are mapped to path names like /cygdrive/c
(prefix is configurable, so YMMV).
It is possible that cygpath can be used to expand C: to /cygdrive/c
in shell scripts, there ought to be a manual explaining this...
J.Pietschmann