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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:54 PM To: Biederman, Steve Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ##### ##### ##### ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# -- 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/
