* Buglist
@ 1997-04-03 17:13 Tim Iverson
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From: Tim Iverson @ 1997-04-03 17:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32
Well, things work now, but if you've also been having problems self-hosting
a build under Windows-95, note that it's rather important to extract
the all tarball with the Cygwin32 tar, and not some other tar.
I have three different tars, and all of them skip over hard links when
extracting 'cuz W95 doesn't support 'em. Normally, one might catch this
right away when running configure -- missing commands and such. However,
my system is sufficiently Unix-like that this didn't happen. Instead I got
all manner of strange behavior.
It would be *very* nice if Cygnus could maintain a public buglist for this
project (buglist and FAQ should be a part of the all tarball). I don't
know about the rest of y'all, but my first thought before I even decided to
download anything, was "Wow, this sounds great, but what doesn't work?" ;-)
Here are the few caveats I've collected so far (btw, not all of these
are bugs, but all are odd enough to note):
. Proper extraction of tarballs requires Cygwin32's tar.exe -- other
tar's may not extract the hard links.
. Control-C will always crash bash.
. Bash does not interoperate well with non-cygnus tools, especially when
piping or arg-sub'ing; eg. try ">foo; test 0 -eq `grep -c . foo`" with
any working, but non-cygnus, grep.
. Gas produced PE objects cannot be linked with a commercial linker;
there is a patch for this, though.
. Don't put your source more than two levels deep or configure
will not function properly. [Not completely verified, could
also have been a tar extraction error].
. Bash can't run many .com programs and won't automatically feed
.bat files to command.com.
. Bash doesn't understand drive letters, multi-dot relative paths
(eg. "cd ..."), or UNC pathnames (eg. //host/resource).
. Bash's glob'ing is case dependent, W95's filesystem isn't (quite).
. You will need to copy gcc.exe to cc.exe to build gcc.exe.
Passing CC=gcc to configure may also work.
. "make install" is broken. You will need to hunt down and manually
install the binaries if you rebuild.
. It has man and info pages, but neither man nor info commands.
- Tim Iverson
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* Re: Buglist
@ 1997-04-07 18:53 dahms
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From: dahms @ 1997-04-07 18:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jqb; +Cc: gnu-win32, dahms
Hi Jim, you wrote:
: Under win32, paths consisting of only dots, with the exception of .
: and .., are illegal. This is along with a number of other
: illegal characters and combinations, including such winners as
: mkdir -p "abcde/xyz/con/ffo/bar" hanging as it tries to do I/O to the
: "con" device; lots of fun when you untar a 500Meg tar tape from
: some other system that was designed on less ad hoc principles.
Yeah, a collegue of mine tried to get com961231.tgz via FTP, after a while
I figured out that specifying a harmless local filename works (I guess there's
no box with >100000 serial ports on the market 8-).
Did you finally got cygwin tar to work? Another collegue gave my an NT tar
binary but which handles only a blocksize of 512, not the standard 10kB,
while the manual of our fine new DDS3 says it works best with 32kB...
And is there any decent "mt" for NT, preferably with sources to spy at?
Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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* RE: Buglist
@ 1997-04-07 12:09 Stephan Mueller
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From: Stephan Mueller @ 1997-04-07 12:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Jim Balter', dahms; +Cc: iverson, gnu-win32
On NT, what Jim says is correct. The 'multi-dot' paths being discussed
are probably a special bonus feature (ahem) of the DOS and Windows 95
command.com shells.
In a Windows 95 command.com box, a reference to a directory name
consisting of n dots means the n-1st parent directory. Thus
cd ...
is equivalent to
cd ..\..
It is interesting that this notation works with non-command.com exes as
well, so it may be that the Win95 implementation of Win32 generally
supports this.
stephan();
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Balter [SMTP:jqb@netcom.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 1997 7:10 PM
> To: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
> Cc: iverson@cisco.com; gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Buglist
>
> dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tim, you wrote:
> >
> > : . Bash doesn't understand drive letters, multi-dot relative paths
> > : (eg. "cd ..."), or UNC pathnames (eg. //host/resource).
> >
> > What is a multi-dot path, please? I never saw ... only know . and ..
> > Under Unix ... has no reserved meaning, and AFAIK neither under NT.
>
> Under win32, paths consisting of only dots, with the exception of .
> and .., are illegal. This is along with a number of other
> illegal characters and combinations, including such winners as
> mkdir -p "abcde/xyz/con/ffo/bar" hanging as it tries to do I/O to the
> "con" device; lots of fun when you untar a 500Meg tar tape from
> some other system that was designed on less ad hoc principles.
>
> --
> <J Q B>
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* Re: Buglist
1997-04-04 14:27 Buglist dahms
@ 1997-04-04 19:15 ` Jim Balter
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From: Jim Balter @ 1997-04-04 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dahms; +Cc: iverson, gnu-win32
dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
>
> Hi Tim, you wrote:
>
> : . Bash doesn't understand drive letters, multi-dot relative paths
> : (eg. "cd ..."), or UNC pathnames (eg. //host/resource).
>
> What is a multi-dot path, please? I never saw ... only know . and ..
> Under Unix ... has no reserved meaning, and AFAIK neither under NT.
Under win32, paths consisting of only dots, with the exception of .
and .., are illegal. This is along with a number of other
illegal characters and combinations, including such winners as
mkdir -p "abcde/xyz/con/ffo/bar" hanging as it tries to do I/O to the
"con" device; lots of fun when you untar a 500Meg tar tape from
some other system that was designed on less ad hoc principles.
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* Re: Buglist
@ 1997-04-04 16:05 Scott Mintz
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From: Scott Mintz @ 1997-04-04 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32, Tim Iverson
Tim,
There is a bug list being kept at:
< http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh/gnu-win32/bugs-list.html >.
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* RE: Buglist
@ 1997-04-04 14:27 dahms
1997-04-04 19:15 ` Buglist Jim Balter
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From: dahms @ 1997-04-04 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: iverson; +Cc: gnu-win32, dahms
Hi Tim, you wrote:
: . Bash doesn't understand drive letters, multi-dot relative paths
: (eg. "cd ..."), or UNC pathnames (eg. //host/resource).
What is a multi-dot path, please? I never saw ... only know . and ..
Under Unix ... has no reserved meaning, and AFAIK neither under NT.
Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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