From: "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Version 1.8.1 does not compile on Cygwin 1.7.14
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 00:37:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FBDECCA565D94DF9838DD81FE2E2543A@black> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50E9F7C2.1000603@gmail.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Levedahl
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 17:17
>
> On 01/06/2013 02:54 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Mark Levedahl wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> However,
> >>> the newer win32api is provided only for the current
> cygwin release
> >>> series, which can be reliably identified by having dll version
> >>> 1.7.x, while the older frozen releases (dll versions 1.6.x from
> >>> redhat, 1.5.x open source) still have the older api as no
> updates are being made for the legacy version(s).
> >> Ah. That makes sense, thanks.
> >>
> >> (For the future, if we wanted to diagnose an out-of-date
> win32api and
> >> print a helpful message, I guess cygcheck would be the command to
> >> use.)
> > Hmph, so we might see somebody who cares about Cygwin to
> come up with
> > a solution based on cygcheck (not on uname) to update this part,
> > perhaps on top of Peff's "split default settings based on
> uname into
> > separate file" patch?
> >
> > If I understood what Mark and Torsten wrote correctly, you
> will have
> > the new win32api if you install 1.7.17 (or newer) from
> scratch, but if
> > you are on older 1.7.x then you can update the win32api part as a
> > package update (as opposed to the whole-system upgrade). A
> test based
> > on "uname -r" cannot notice that an older 1.7.x (say 1.7.14)
> > installation has a newer win32api because the user updated
> it from the
> > package (hence the user should not define CYGWIN_V15_WIN32API).
> >
> > Am I on the same page as you guys, or am I still behind?
> >
> > In the meantime, perhaps we would need something like this?
>
> It's perhaps worth noting how we got into this mess. The
> problems have their root in
>
> adbc0b6b6e57c11ca49779d01f549260a920a97d
>
> Cygwin's entire goal is a completely POSIX compliant
> environment running under Windows. The above commit
> circumvents some of Cygwin's API regarding stat/fstat to make
> things perhaps a bit faster, and definitely not POSIX
Ug!
> compliant (The commit message is wrong, the commit definitely
> breaks POSIX compliance). That code is also what will not
> compile on different w32api versions. It is curious: the
> Cygwin mailing list has been absolutely silent since the
> w32api change was introduced last summer, this is the only
> piece of code I am aware of that was broken by the new
> headers, and of course the purpose of this code is to
Um, going out on a limb here, but those headers are used internally as "cygwin"
apps are most likely to now know about those headers.
> circumvent the Cygwin API (and by extension, Cygwin project goals).
>
> So, perhaps a better path forward is to disable / remove the
> above code by default. (Those wanting a native Win32 git
> should just use the native
> Win32 git).
Or a make option...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-07 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-06 2:04 Version 1.8.1 does not compile on Cygwin 1.7.14 Stephen & Linda Smith
2013-01-06 3:37 ` Jason Pyeron
2013-01-06 4:22 ` Jason Pyeron
2013-01-06 6:20 ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2013-01-06 6:29 ` Jason Pyeron
2013-01-06 7:23 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-01-06 9:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-06 9:42 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-01-06 9:57 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-06 11:48 ` Mark Levedahl
2013-01-06 12:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-06 14:09 ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2013-01-06 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-06 20:51 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-01-06 21:34 ` Mark Levedahl
2013-01-06 21:09 ` Mark Levedahl
2013-01-06 21:33 ` Jason Pyeron
2013-01-06 21:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-06 21:46 ` Jason Pyeron
2013-01-06 22:00 ` Mark Levedahl
2013-01-06 22:16 ` Mark Levedahl
2013-01-07 5:37 ` Jason Pyeron [this message]
2013-01-07 7:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-07 9:10 ` Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US)
2013-01-08 3:12 ` Mark Levedahl
2013-01-11 20:08 ` Alex Riesen
2013-01-11 20:17 ` Alex Riesen
2013-01-13 18:58 ` Mark Levedahl
2013-01-15 18:47 ` Ramsay Jones
2013-01-20 10:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-20 10:48 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-01-20 11:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-21 5:20 ` [msysGit] " Torsten Bögershausen
2013-01-22 18:38 ` Ramsay Jones
2013-01-22 18:31 ` Ramsay Jones
2013-01-25 23:58 ` Mark Levedahl
2013-01-26 0:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-26 0:34 ` Eric Blake
2013-01-26 1:03 ` [PATCH/RFC] mingw: rename WIN32 cpp macro to NATIVE_WINDOWS Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-26 14:11 ` Mark Levedahl
2013-01-26 17:21 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-01-28 18:29 ` Ramsay Jones
2013-02-25 6:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-26 4:08 ` Mark Levedahl
2013-02-26 16:40 ` Torsten Bögershausen
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