Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by
	smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication
X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVbAjAKXD5DK8jJn2wxxSPnxY8bD9w+/yATgK58ARcMpDLSWXYvUXNFa
Message-ID: <3F313A6F.4060706@cygwin.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 13:27:11 -0400
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: "Biederman, Steve" <steve_biederman AT mentorg DOT com>
CC: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?
References: <3D5E0EA708C5DD44B7575859D366728C2DC29E AT svr-orw-exc-02 DOT wv DOT mentorg DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <3D5E0EA708C5DD44B7575859D366728C2DC29E@svr-orw-exc-02.wv.mentorg.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Oh, OK.  I didn't know that this was a restatement of that problem
(<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00932.html>).  Did you try
running tar on the affected systems with strace?  Perhaps a comparison
of the output from a machine where it's failing and the same from one
that doesn't would provide some insight.

Larry


Biederman, Steve wrote:

> For a good, concise example and test case, go back to the problem I posted on 7/16, 
> titled "tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this test case".
> 
> That behavior is seen on a bare Windows machine with no Cygwin installed
> but for tar 1.13.25 and cygwin1.dll.  
> 
> When I installed a Cygwin build environment in order to debug the problem,
> the problem disappeared.  But its easily reproduced on a bare Windows machine.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:54 PM
> To: Biederman, Steve
> Cc: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?
> 
> 
> Biederman, Steve wrote:
> 
> 
>>I want to allow the users I support to be able to run Cygwin tar on their Windows machines.
>>These machines have not had any Cygwin installed; they're just bare Windows machines.
>>
>>I provided them tar.exe and cygwin1.dll and assumed that with these, they could run
>>Cygwin tar sucessfully.  It appears that that isn't the case: machines without Cygwin 
>>installed see different behavior than machines which have it installed.  (Running tar
>>on machines without Cygwin installed creates incorrect tar archives.)
>>
>>What is the minimum I need to provide to a non-Cygwin Windows machine to get
>>Cygwin tar to run reliably?
> 
> 
> 
> Dunno.  Perhaps you need to provide some data on what's wrong with the
> archives made and some specifics on what you're using (cygcheck output
> perhaps?) and an example of the problem.
> 
> 


--
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/