Received: from spf3.us4.outblaze.com (spf3.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.25]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j13Im4WX016069 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:48:10 GMT Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by spf3.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CD553659 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:48:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CwmEn-0007WW-BD for migo@homemail.com; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:01:57 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CwmDv-0007KG-KG for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:01:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CwmDm-0007GK-5c for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:00:55 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CwmDl-0007FU-EA for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:00:53 -0500 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CwlyG-0001Rh-7O for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:44:52 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Cwlx8-00074G-PY for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:43:42 +0100 Received: from 203.7.227.188 ([203.7.227.188]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:43:42 +0100 Received: from wildfire by 203.7.227.188 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:43:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org From: Anand Kumria Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 05:42:42 +1100 Message-ID: References: <20050203190815.4e706dd6.erikd-tla@mega-nerd.com> <420217F4.1050505@sipsolutions.net> <20050203234718.0994c2f9.erikd-tla@mega-nerd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.7.227.188 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-MailScanner-From: gcvau-arch-users@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch X-BeenThere: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: a discussion list for all things arch-ish List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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: 1226 Lines: 29 On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:47:18 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > 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. > > 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. These paths are handled just fine; however they need to be prefixed with \\?\ prior to submission to the Win32 API See: and the the commentry for lpFileName. > Yes, windows is fucked. Preach it, brother. Anand _______________________________________________ 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/