X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:45:49 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Question...has this been raised before? why domain\user instead of domain/user? Message-ID: <20100622054549.GB27529@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4C1FD90A DOT 3000509 AT tlinx DOT org> <4C1FDE7A DOT 3040202 AT redhat DOT com> <4C1FE8EC DOT 8080707 AT tlinx DOT org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C1FE8EC.8080707@tlinx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:34:20PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >Eric Blake wrote: >>> Isn't this inconsistent? Any plans to fix this? >--- >Given the difficulting in building the cygin executable, I doubt it. > >Most projects, I get the tarball, or check it out. Do a configure, or >run the bootstrap.sh/autogen.sh script, then configure, then make -- >and it just works. > >Never had any luck w/cygwin -- ALWAYS had things fail with missing >files /executables that I never had any luck in finding. > >Tried maybe 3 separate times to track things down over 5 years; >Eventually I came to the conclusion that the builders didn't want to >make easy building of cygwin a high enough priority that any 'dummy' >(like me) could just check it out and build it -- that there were >things "assumed" about the environment that any one who was not a dummy >would know should be there. > >So I haven't tried since. Never had a problem building anything else. > >So I doubt you see a patch soon -- I have too many other projects where >I can just download the source and they just build for me to spend >days/weeks groveling before what was such a friendly, helpful >development team, to submit work that would probably have been rejected >anyway. > >***Things may have changed***, and please don't take personally my >experiences with any of your predecessors, who at times drove me to >apoplectic fits when I let them get to me. Not too bright of me...but >C'est la vie. If things have changed, I may try again sometime but >cygwin's goals don't include x64, which tends to limit my excitement, a >bit, at this point...;-) Please don't send details of your private travails to this list. Your life is not on-topic. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple