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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 08:41:53 -0600
From: John A Meinel <john@arbash-meinel.com>
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To: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-tla@mega-nerd.com>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a	project
	in arch
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Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

>On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:24:20 +0100
>Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I have tried running the tla binary that was available, but that
>>>didn't work due to the win32 path limit issue; "tla get" seemed
>>>to work, but "tla changes --diffs" wouldn't.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Weird. What filesystem are you using?
>>    
>>
>
>Whatever is the default on winxp. This is a known problem. There's
>a huge thread here:
>
>     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2003-11/msg00194.html
>
>and there's a bunch of others since then.
>
>  
>
>>>Are there any other Arch options or do I need to run an SVN in 
>>>parallel?
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>There's cygwin work by John Meinel.
>>    
>>
>
>John's stuff is MinGW not Cygwin. This is actually what I tried last time
>(3-4 months ago), but from talking to Rob Collins today, this problem
>still exists. There is no easy solution which is why it hasn't been
>fixed yet.
>
>  
>
I can promise you that my work is Cygwin and not mingw. I can also tell 
that this isn't the actual binary that I released, since the paths don't 
look like what I generate.

First, get the binary from:
http://ct.radiology.uiowa.edu/~jfmeinel/tla-short-path
It is tla.exe.bz2 (bzipped to save time)

If you want, you can use the cygwin setup program to get it. I have the 
cygwin repository at
http://ct.radiology.uiowa.edu/~jfmeinel/tla-short-path/cygwin-sources/

Basically, when you run setup.exe when it asks you what mirror you want 
to use, add a new one with the above path. Then you should have tla as 
an package you can install.

The other portion that helps is to have a revision library instead of 
pristine trees. The problem is pristine trees exist in your working 
directory, so you already have a bunch of path up to there.
What I do is I create a C:\RL directory, and then in cygwin I type
tla my-revision-library /cygdrive/c/RL
tla library-config --greedy --sparse /cygdrive/c/RL

>The problem is file paths like this:
>
>{arch}/++pristine-trees/unlocked/libsndfile/libsndfile--mdev/libsndfile--mdev--1.0/erikd@miles--2004/libsndfile--mdev--1.0--patch-380/{arch}/libsndfile/libsndfile--devel/libsndfile--devel--1.0/erikd@mega-nerd.com--2004/patch-log/patch-1
>
>under the {arch} directory. Paths of this length are not handled 
>correctly by windows of any flavour.
>
>Yes, windows is fucked.
>
>  
>
Agreed, but a few of us are working on it. :)

>Erik
>  
>
If you want to give it a try and let me know if it works for you. I have 
found cases where it still fails if the project names are too long. But 
libsndfile--mdev--1.0 shouldn't have any problems.

John
=:->


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