Message-ID: <41AD6338.6040408@arbash-meinel.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:22:48 -0600
From: John A Meinel <john@arbash-meinel.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Bill Page <bill.page1@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] building arch on cygwin (was: darcs vs tla)
References: <001a01c4d767$88755250$6501a8c0@Asus>
In-Reply-To: <001a01c4d767$88755250$6501a8c0@Asus>
Cc: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org
Precedence: list
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1221056952=="
Sender: gnu-arch-users-bounces+migo=homemail.com@gnu.org
Errors-To: gnu-arch-users-bounces+migo=homemail.com@gnu.org
Status: RO
Content-Length: 3759
Lines: 114
This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156)
--===============1221056952==
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
	protocol="application/pgp-signature";
	boundary="------------enig0E9838D5F65AC4F19CB60768"

This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156)
--------------enig0E9838D5F65AC4F19CB60768
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Bill Page wrote:
> John A Meinel, et al.
> 
> Following the recipe below I did successfully build tla on
> Cygwin from the listed archives as of 30 November, but in
> addition to the unit-unidata test failure below, I am seeing
> numerous other test failures:
> 
> In hackerlab/tests/fs-tests/unit-file-names.sh
>   home...
>   expand...
> 
> In tla/tests/test-my-id.sh
> 
>   Setting my-id: Jane Doe <jane+patches@hacker.gnu.org>
>   mkdir: cannot create directory `+': File exists
> 

This is actually a bug in the scripts themselves. It turns out that 
cygwin's /bin/sh is actually ash, not bash. So it doesn't support the 
syntax of  $(($x + 1)) . Instead of giving you 2 it gives 1 + 1. My 
workaround was to close all cygwin shells, and then delete 
c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe and copy c:\cygwin\bash.exe to sh.exe.

The other workaround would be to figure out how to do addition in pure 
POSIX shell, or go around and make sure all the scripts reference 
/bin/bash instead of /bin/sh.

This should probably be registered as a bug, but I'm not sure what the 
"correct" solution is.

> (At this point I stopped trying to continue running the tests
> by commenting out failures.)
> 
> In spite of these test failures, tla does seem to be quite
> functional in my simple manual tests. Are the test failures
> above special cases that do not often occur in practice?
> Should I just ignore these failures? Or is there work in
> progress to address them?
> 

It's a bug in the script, not in the binary.

> Also, I notice that the reference to a "binary version available
> at http://ct.radiology.uiowa.edu/~jfmeinel/archives"  at 
> http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Native_20WIN32_20Support
> is apparently out of date since I no longer find the referenced
> files there.  If I recall correctly, I did download an executable
> cygwin tla from that location on 19 November. I have been using
> it successfully from the last 10 days. Is a new binary now
> available somewhere else?
> 

I forgot to update the wiki. The correct page is:
http://ct.radiology.uiowa.edu/~jfmeinel/tla-short-path/

There should be the latest version of the binary there. I'm using it 
myself, so I'm pretty sure it is good.

> Regards,
> Bill Page.
> 

Thanks for evaluating it. Sorry all the ends aren't as polished as they 
could be, if you have any suggestions I'm listening. (Especially if the 
suggestions come in patch form :)

John
=:->

--------------enig0E9838D5F65AC4F19CB60768
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc"

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFBrWM7JdeBCYSNAAMRAqbLAJ95L5vzedne9tVPTaKJ4796mcwgPgCguGA3
ON2vfA7m6IQsgY4/ZgZMW7o=
=2k3h
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--------------enig0E9838D5F65AC4F19CB60768--


--===============1221056952==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

_______________________________________________
Gnu-arch-users mailing list
Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users

GNU arch home page:
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
--===============1221056952==--