Re: cygwin breakage

[Charles Wilson]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> No, no!  Let's not revert it.  Otherwise we will hit exactly the same
> problem in HEAD when we first try to use it on Cygwin.

Then what is the purpose of having a branch-2-0 vs. HEAD? We finally got 
branch-2-0 working on cygwin; yet one destabilizing change and poof! 
three failures and eight skips.

I've no problems with leaving Peter's stuff in HEAD; at least there we 
have some time to debug it.  But I'm fearful of an impending 2.0 release 
(that's why there's a release branch, right?) where any random "cleanup" 
or "cosmetic" patch can break existing functionality.

If it's a release branch, treat it like a release branch.  If it's not, 
the make it HEAD, move HEAD to "garys-favorite-playground" and be done 
with it.

> In a moment of madness (it must this flu I have), I'm trying to install 
> virtual PC on my mac, so I can install windows 98 on it, so I can 
> install cygwin on that, so I can install libtool branch-2-0 on that. 
> I'll see if I can figure out what is going on.

That's good new.  INSANE.  But good.
It takes me about an hour to bootstrap, build, and run the test suite on 
libtool/cygwin, on an ath64 3000 (~ 1.8GHz clock speed).  I tremble in 
fear: virtual PC.  <shudder>

> Setup.exe has been running the texmf postinstall script for over an hour
> now.  I'm going to bed.  Hopefully it will be done by morning... :-(

I don't have cygwin's tetex installed, but the texmf postinstall script 
does this:

texconfig rehash
texconfig confall
texconfig rehash
texconfig init

so I can see why it might take a while...

--
Chuck