From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19075 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2010 15:30:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 19067 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Jan 2010 15:30:51 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-173-76-48-109.bstnma.east.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (173.76.48.109) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:30:47 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C13A13C0C7 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:30:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 48E6D2B35A; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:30:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:03:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash Message-ID: <20100121153037.GB1092@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B5860C9.50100@sidefx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B5860C9.50100@sidefx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00864.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:12:25AM -0500, Edward Lam wrote: >Eric Blake wrote: >> The package dash has been upgraded to 0.5.5.1-2 for those using cygwin >> 1.7, simultaneously replacing dash-0.5.5.1-1 and ash-20040127-4. The ash >> package is now obsolete; ash.exe is provided by the dash package. > >I know I'm slow but I just updated to this cygwin change and running >into a snag. In our build process, we rely on using DOS file paths and >dash seems to NOT support them. It's impractical for me to properly use >POSIX paths because of the effort required to convert such a large >project (it was ported to Windows in 1996 back when we were using Cygnus >B20.1(?)). I tried to go look for ash but couldn't find it anymore. >Using bash seems to cause other problems in the build process (and of >course it's also dog slow on this complicated project). Any ideas? You could always build your own version of ash. There is also the Cygwin Time Machine: http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple