On 6 Aug 2010, at 11:59, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Gary,
Hallo Ralf!
> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 06:01:37AM CEST:
>> I promised to roll a 2.2.12 release this month. But looking at the
>> huge progress we've made so far with Windows since 2.2.10, I'm
>> wondering if we
* Charles Wilson wrote on Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:26:30AM CEST:
> But a STEP in that direction is to reduce the current pain experienced
> by cross compiles for $host=mingw even with --prefix=/unixish; pain
> caused by the current lack of sysroot support in libtool (and some other
> utilities).
>
On 8/3/10 4:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> [adding autoconf to document some shell bugs]
>
> On 08/03/2010 02:32 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> Interesting shell unportability:
>>
>> $ bash -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f'
>> val
>> $ ksh -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f'
>> val
>>
>> ksh93, dash, zsh all do
Hello Gary,
* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 06:01:37AM CEST:
> I promised to roll a 2.2.12 release this month. But looking at the
> huge progress we've made so far with Windows since 2.2.10, I'm
> wondering if we would be better to roll 2.2.12 sooner rather than
> later?
I am sti
On 6 Aug 2010, at 02:08, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> You guys have done a great job so far, and I'm really trying to
> not delay review; it would be sad to see this not fly just because we
> talk past each other about some related questions.
Which reminds me:
I promised to roll a 2.2.12 release this
On 8/5/2010 3:08 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Charles Wilson wrote on Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 08:10:10AM CEST:
>> But, that is untenable: on the one hand you want to assert that "thou
>> shalt include X: in thy prefixes when configuring for $host=mingw" even
>> when cross-compiling for any purpose,
Hi Charles,
thanks for the elaborate explanations.
* Charles Wilson wrote on Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 08:10:10AM CEST:
> On 8/4/2010 2:15 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Charles Wilson wrote on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:22:46AM CEST:
[...]
> >> Thanks to a quirk in window's path resolution, any
> >> u
