On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:07:09AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I would be grateful if someone could suggest a way to test > > this. Would it make sense (and is it possible) to replace > > the Cygwin kernel or the "coreutils" package (because of > > "mv") with earlier versions and see if the script works then? > > You should first create a minimal, self-contained script which allows to > reproduce the effect reliably on your machines. A really minimal > script. Self-contained. So that everybody can run it to try to > reproduce the effect without relying on your environment.
Okay. > Then you could try to change the versions of coreutils and gawk. At no > point in this thread did you mention different Cygwin versions. Are you > running 1.5.24 on all of them including your laptop? If so, there's no > point in experimenting with different Cygwin DLLs. On my laptop, I am using (uname -srv): CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 (FWIW, I agree with Igor Pechtchanski's suggestion [1] that the Cygwin FAQ include more detail on how to check version [2].) [1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-02/msg00121.html [2] http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.what.version > If you found the difference, you could send the observation here > together with your really minimal, self-contained script, and a quick > description what to do to reproduce the effect and how it can be > observed. Thanks, understood - I'll give this a try. Tom Baker -- Tom Baker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
