On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:27:11PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > 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. > > > 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. > > > > > >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?
This may not be apropos today ... Several years ago I was trying something similar, get a minimum, standalone amanda distribution. The distributed gtar was not yet 1.13.25 so I compiled my own. It needed another cygwin provided dll besides cygwin1.dll. Sorry I don't recall which one, nor do I know if that requirement still exists. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- 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/
