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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:04:14 -0600
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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.

|  The above path should never have been generated.  The package
| in question seems to use native Windows paths (first problem)

And we already know that tcl uses native Windows paths (perhaps by using
cygwin_path_conv though), since it only dynamically pulls in cygwin1.dll
instead of being a full-blown cygwin app (necessary in part so that
insight, which is based on tcl, can be used to debug cygwin1.dll).
Perhaps the bug was introduced in the path conversion functions.

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.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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