Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 11 13:14, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/10/2008 3:34 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: At the end of this mail you will find a more or less complete list of changes from 1.5.x to 1.7.x. I think you forgot to mention the change to st_nlink [1], which will affect some applications. For example,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2008 9:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 11 13:14, Ken Brown wrote: I think you forgot to mention the change to st_nlink [1], which will affect some applications. For example, the kpathsea search library for texlive needs to be patched to accommodate the change. (I've sent the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 12 09:44, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/12/2008 9:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 11 13:14, Ken Brown wrote: I think you forgot to mention the change to st_nlink [1], which will affect some applications. For example, the kpathsea search library for texlive needs to be patched to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/12/2008 7:58 AM: I don't think it's the right way to special case this for Cygwin in kpathsea. This isn't exactly a Cygwin issue. The right thing to do would be to change the test in a generic fashion from

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2008 10:48 AM, Eric Blake wrote: According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/12/2008 7:58 AM: I don't think it's the right way to special case this for Cygwin in kpathsea. This isn't exactly a Cygwin issue. The right thing to do would be to change the test in a generic fashion from if

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-11 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/10/2008 3:34 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: At the end of this mail you will find a more or less complete list of changes from 1.5.x to 1.7.x. I think you forgot to mention the change to st_nlink [1], which will affect some applications. For example, the kpathsea search library for

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-11 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: One other thing I've noticed, which I think is unrelated, is that there is a glitch in directory listing in emacs under cygwin 1.7: If you try to list a directory with control-x d, very often the directory listing makes it look like the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi all, after a rather long period of time of development, we're proud to start public testing of the upcoming new major release of Cygwin. The version number is 1.7.0 for the current test release and will be 1.7.x with some x yet to be chosen for the final release. As of today, the planning