X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:30:35 +0100 From: Thomas Baker To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation Message-ID: <20071114093034.GA2236@sub-tombaker> References: <20071111173033.GA2360@sub-tombaker> <20071112090628.GA3792@sub-tombaker> <20071113165901.GA2096@sub-tombaker> <20071114072231.GB252@sub-tombaker> <20071114090709.GC4987@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071114090709.GC4987@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:07:09AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I would be grateful if someone could suggest a way to test > > this. Would it make sense (and is it possible) to replace > > the Cygwin kernel or the "coreutils" package (because of > > "mv") with earlier versions and see if the script works then? > > You should first create a minimal, self-contained script which allows to > reproduce the effect reliably on your machines. A really minimal > script. Self-contained. So that everybody can run it to try to > reproduce the effect without relying on your environment. Okay. > Then you could try to change the versions of coreutils and gawk. At no > point in this thread did you mention different Cygwin versions. Are you > running 1.5.24 on all of them including your laptop? If so, there's no > point in experimenting with different Cygwin DLLs. On my laptop, I am using (uname -srv): CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 (FWIW, I agree with Igor Pechtchanski's suggestion [1] that the Cygwin FAQ include more detail on how to check version [2].) [1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-02/msg00121.html [2] http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.what.version > If you found the difference, you could send the observation here > together with your really minimal, self-contained script, and a quick > description what to do to reproduce the effect and how it can be > observed. Thanks, understood - I'll give this a try. Tom Baker -- Tom Baker - tbaker@tbaker.de - baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/