RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-07 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 10:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like > $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise > > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:55:12PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrot

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:55:12PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >> From: Igor Pechtchanski >> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:40 PM > >> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >> >> > > From: Igor Pechtchanski >> > > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:44 AM >> > >> > > It would be eas

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-06 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:40 PM > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:44 AM > > > > > It would be easy to check if the above was the reason for the hang by > > > trying to call the

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:44 AM > > > It would be easy to check if the above was the reason for the hang by > > trying to call the following program from a postinstall script and seeing > > if it also hangs: > >

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-06 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:44 AM > It would be easy to check if the above was the reason for the hang by > trying to call the following program from a postinstall script and seeing > if it also hangs: It doesn't hang. :-I /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-05 Thread Alan Miles
s/Win200 SP4/Win2000 SP4/g -Original Message- From: Alan Miles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 5, 2003 20:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise All, Just to add another wrinkle: See

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-05 Thread Alan Miles
4, 2003 09:52 To: Cliff Hones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > I ran cygcheck on cygpath, and was surprised to discover > that it has a dependence on ms

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:43:53PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Who's going to find these functions? cygpath.exe is not going to > >>accidentally use ar function with the same name from another

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:43:53PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Who's going to find these functions? cygpath.exe is not going to >>accidentally use ar function with the same name from another DLL. >>That's not how it works. msvcrt is being loade

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > > > >> I ran cygcheck on cygpath, and was surprised to discover > >> that it has a dependence on msvcrt (as well as cygwin1): > >> > >> $ c

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-05 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 9:48 PM > > I suspect you will see something different. I guess if on some Windows > > systems shlwapi.dll has a dependence on msvcrt.dll, it is not safe > > to call this from any cygwin app. > > > > -- Cliff > > Bingo. I think we have d

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Oh, and this might explain why I'm not seeing the hang on my machine: > > > > $ cygcheck /bin/cygpath.exe > > C:/cygwin/bin/cygpath.exe > > C:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll > > C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll > > C:\WINNT\

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-04 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > > > > > I ran cygcheck on cygpath, and was surprised to discover > > > that it has a dependence on msvcrt (as well as cygwin1): > > > > > > $ cygcheck /bin/cygpath.exe > > > D:/c

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > >> I ran cygcheck on cygpath, and was surprised to discover >> that it has a dependence on msvcrt (as well as cygwin1): >> >> $ cygcheck /bin/cygpath.exe >> D:/cygwin/bin/cygpath.exe >> D:

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:34:55PM +0100, Cliff Hones wrote: >Cliff Hones wrote: >> ... >> I suspect you will see something different. I guess if on some Windows >> systems shlwapi.dll has a dependence on msvcrt.dll, it is not safe >> to call this from any cygwin app. > >I think this may have been

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-04 Thread Cliff Hones
Cliff Hones wrote: > ... > I suspect you will see something different. I guess if on some Windows > systems shlwapi.dll has a dependence on msvcrt.dll, it is not safe > to call this from any cygwin app. I think this may have been introduced with W2k SP4. I found the following version of shlwapi.

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-04 Thread Cliff Hones
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Oh, and this might explain why I'm not seeing the hang on my machine: > > $ cygcheck /bin/cygpath.exe > C:/cygwin/bin/cygpath.exe > C:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll > C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll > C:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL > C:\WINNT\System32\SHELL32.DLL >

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-04 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > > > I ran cygcheck on cygpath, and was surprised to discover > > that it has a dependence on msvcrt (as well as cygwin1): > > > > $ cygcheck /bin/cygpath.exe > > D:/cygwin/bin/cygpath.exe > > D:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll > > D

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > > > I ran cygcheck on cygpath, and was surprised to discover > > that it has a dependence on msvcrt (as well as cygwin1): > > > > $ cygcheck /bin/cygpath.exe > > D:/cygwin/bin/cygpath.exe > > D:/cygwin/bin\cy

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > I ran cygcheck on cygpath, and was surprised to discover > that it has a dependence on msvcrt (as well as cygwin1): > > $ cygcheck /bin/cygpath.exe > D:/cygwin/bin/cygpath.exe > D:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll > D:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll > D:\WIN

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like$(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-04 Thread Cliff Hones
I ran cygcheck on cygpath, and was surprised to discover that it has a dependence on msvcrt (as well as cygwin1): $ cygcheck /bin/cygpath.exe D:/cygwin/bin/cygpath.exe D:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll D:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll D:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL D:\WINNT\system32\SHELL32.DLL

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 14:19, Alan Miles wrote: > All, > > I concur - I have a couple of private packages that I build, and then use a > local copy of upset to create the setup.ini file. My packages are ** NOT ** > XFree86 related, and I have the same type of $(cygpath -S) call in my > postinstall

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-03 Thread Alan Miles
n setup.exe correctly installs cygwin without any freeze ups. Alan -Original Message- From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 3, 2003 13:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cygx Subject: Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not other