Re: Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 6 09:03, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Dave Korn wrote: >>> LOLWUT? It turns out something has gone horribly wrong in the >>> alternatives >>> department now: >>> [...] >> Actually, from Corinna's reply, it appears that, in addition to >> reverting *alternatives* be

Re: Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote: > So, IIUC, alternatives-1.3.30c-10 isn't *itself* actually broken, right? No, I didn't mean the package is broken, just that the alternatives themselves, i.e. the symlinks, were wrong. cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 09:03, Charles Wilson wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > LOLWUT? It turns out something has gone horribly wrong in the > > alternatives > > department now: > > [...] > > Actually, from Corinna's reply, it appears that, in addition to > reverting *alternatives* because of the dependence th

Re: Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 09:06, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > However, just before the application's main() is called, the locale is > > set back to "C", see > > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc.diff?r1=1.352&r2=1.353&cvsroot=src&f=h > > Hmm. "before main()

Re: Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > However, just before the application's main() is called, the locale is > set back to "C", see > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc.diff?r1=1.352&r2=1.353&cvsroot=src&f=h Hmm. "before main()" huh? Is that *before*, or *after*, C++ static init

Re: Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Dave Korn wrote: > LOLWUT? It turns out something has gone horribly wrong in the alternatives > department now: > > $ gcc > bash: gcc: command not found > > $ gcc.exe > bash: gcc.exe: command not found > > $ file /bin/gcc.exe > /bin/gcc.exe: broken symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/gcc' >

Re: Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 05:56, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Dave Korn on 4/6/2009 3:08 AM: > > I wonder if m4 suddenly changed its behaviour as a result of now being > > locale sensitive, which had knock-on effects on autoconf and bison, which > > causes the trouble by doing something unexpected when gener

Re: Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Korn on 4/6/2009 3:08 AM: > I wonder if m4 suddenly changed its behaviour as a result of now being > locale sensitive, which had knock-on effects on autoconf and bison, which > causes the trouble by doing something unexpected when g

Re: Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > This happens if the symlink has been created with Cygwin 1.7.0-45 > and you revert back to 1.7.0-44 or earlier. Yeh, it all went quiet for a while while I've been re-reading the recent release announcements. Thanks for the pointers. > I explained what I did to new sy

Re: Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 10:08, Dave Korn wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > > Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> Forgot to say... can I see your "cygcheck -cd"? I would have said "just > >> m4 > >> and cygwin", but maybe it's related to something else. > > > > Attached. FWIW, I had no problems building other things,

Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

2009-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> Forgot to say... can I see your "cygcheck -cd"? I would have said "just m4 >> and cygwin", but maybe it's related to something else. > > Attached. FWIW, I had no problems building other things, like > yesterday's p7zip packages or today's alternat