Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-03 Thread John Williams
friedman_hill ernest j wrote: I think John Williams wrote: It seems not many people build linux kernels under cygwin - I think if they did, this issue I've found would have been reported earlier, because it's the first step in the kernel configuration process. OK, I've gotta ask -- WHY do you wa

Re: Bug in cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:10:00PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >That tyrant CGF, who won't let me leave, uses Linux to build Cygwin. Is > >that irony or hypocrisy? (Right, right. It's "pragmatism.") > > I'm still detecting a certain wistful qual

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread John Williams
Hi Sam, I've ported uClinux to a new reconfigurable softcore microprocessor. The gcc toolchain for this little beastie runs under Cygwin (well, actually something called Xygwin, but that's another story entirely).. For the record, I've built a couple of bootable kernels under Cygwin. Yes, I

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread John Williams
Randall R Schulz wrote: John, Are you a famous composer? If so, are you _the_ famous composer? No, and nor am I the famous and very talented classical guitarist. I have two guitars, but I can't play either of them :O -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug report

RE: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread Robb, Sam
> I think John Williams wrote: > > > > It seems not many people build linux kernels under cygwin - I think > > if they did, this issue I've found would have been reported earlier, > > because it's the first step in the kernel configuration process. > > OK, I've gotta ask -- WHY do you want to do

Re: Bug in cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:10:00PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >That tyrant CGF, who won't let me leave, uses Linux to build Cygwin. Is >that irony or hypocrisy? (Right, right. It's "pragmatism.") I'm still detecting a certain wistful quality in your email when you mention linux, Randall. Tha

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread Martin Gainty
Would someone who has that talent be dealing with short tempered chits? I dont think so.. -M - Original Message - From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:10 PM Subject: Re: Bug in Cygwin bash? > Jo

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think John Williams wrote: > > It seems not many people build linux kernels under cygwin - I think > if they did, this issue I've found would have been reported earlier, > because it's the first step in the kernel configuration process. OK, I've gotta ask -- WHY do you want to do this in the fi

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
John, Are you a famous composer? If so, are you _the_ famous composer? At 18:58 2003-04-02, John Williams wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: John, Yes, there's a limitation on the total volume of argument strings. All Unix systems have such a limit and so does Cygwin. The limits vary from system to

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread John Williams
Randall R Schulz wrote: John, Yes, there's a limitation on the total volume of argument strings. All Unix systems have such a limit and so does Cygwin. The limits vary from system to system, though POSIX dictates a minimum value for this limit. Anybody know the standard Cygwin limit off the top

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
John, Yes, there's a limitation on the total volume of argument strings. All Unix systems have such a limit and so does Cygwin. The limits vary from system to system, though POSIX dictates a minimum value for this limit. If you've got to deal in some kind of open-ended argument list (lists of

Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread John Williams
Hi folks, I've found a bizarro error that may in fact relate to Cygwin/bash. I'm using the latest version (ran setup and refreshed just yesterday). In the linux kernel configuration process, there is a rule in /linux-2.4.x/makefile that looks like this: dep-files: scripts/mkdep -- `fi