RE: Re: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-09-01 Thread CARTER Alan
> Whether you typed it yourself or not, those type of disclaimers are actually not allowed in mail to mailing lists at this site: > http://sourceware.org/lists.html OK. I can't post. My mistake was attempting to make a suggestion to a person asking for help - which is more than you did. What a wa

RE: Re: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-31 Thread CARTER Alan
> Hmm... 9 lines of content, 10 of disclaimer... *sip!* > Eew, and the disclaimer isn't even line-wrapped... > (How come PCYMTNILOAUD is not on the OLOCA yet? ;-)) Ah. You think I typed that, myself? I didn't. It was automatically appended by the local email system. Many corporate email systems

RE: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-31 Thread CARTER Alan
> In any case, it's pretty weird that bash randomly fails to spawn child processes! It wreaks havoc on a number of my scripts. Thought: Silent failure to spawn used to happen on some UNIX boxen when the process table was full (or one slot remained and user != root). Might something like this be c

RE: Where can I find old Cygwin repositories?

2006-08-11 Thread CARTER Alan
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg01100.html Worked for me. I needed a 2004 vintage to avoid regression testing a big app, so Mr. Castro's Time Machine was really helpful. Cygwin is brittle. This is nothing to whine about, because it is caused by fundamental low level incompatibilities

Rebuilding Cygwin From Sources

2006-07-24 Thread CARTER Alan
Hi, Perhaps someone who knows can confirm that I've got this right: The executables in a Cygwin download can be much older than the download date, where "much" > 3 years. This suggests that executables are only rebuilt when their own sources change. Previously built executables can continue to b