X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:56:43 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.0-19: Still unexplained path problems Message-ID: <20080722135643.GA21785@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6086F48CE8E1479DB51E00035DFD5B14@cit.wayne.edu> <20080722094517.GF5251@calimero.vinschen.de> <4885CCBE.8090305@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4885CCBE.8090305@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 Jul 22 06:04, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/22/2008 3:45 AM: > |> application-specific initialization failed: Can't find a usable > init.tcl in > |> the following directories: > |> //?/E:/cygwin/share/tcl8.4 //?/E:cygwin/share/tcl8.4 > |> //?/E:cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4 //?/E:share/tcl8.4 //?/E:cygwin/library > //?/E > |> :library //?/E:../tcl8.4.1/library > | > | As I said in my first reply, this is likely a problem in autogen, TCL or > | brltty. > > I can rule out autogen and brltty. I can't build git on 1.7.0 either, for > the same reason, for several months now. Something in tcl is not very > happy with 1.7.0. And since I'm relegated to building git under 1.5.x, I > can't test git's claim to using IPv6. Can you create an strace of a testcase (building git or something) which shows where and how the paths are generated? Maybe we can workaround this in Cygwin itself by tweaking paths missing a / or \ after the colon... > Not to mention that cygwin's tcl is very old - I had to apply a patch to > git to work around the fact that cygwin's tcl doesn't know how to redirect > stderr, when compared with all the other distros that have a more modern > version. Yeah. It would be cool if we could get a new tcl version at one point. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/