Re: [Mingw-msys] MSYS and Win98

[Manu <con...@wa...>]

Hi,

about the freezing problem i've previously mentioned, i didn't succeed to
reproduce it. Sometimes it occurs, and then
always occurs while the PC isn't restarted, sometimes it never happens.
I didn't have the time to investigate more on this problem, but i'll try
latest releases soon.

One more amazing thing, there's a way to 'unfreeze' MSYS : closing an
Explorer Window. I'm not joking, close an
Explorer Window, if you don't have one opened, then open one and close it.
MSYS starts, strange, isn't it ?

I think, there's a trouble with paths, i have commented Cygwin's path in my
autoexec.bat, then the problem never
appears. Is it the cause ? I don't know indeed, since i can't surely
reproduce the problem.

Regards.
Manu.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <ear...@ya...>
To: "Manu" <con...@wa...>
Cc: <Min...@li...>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-msys] MSYS and Win98


> Manu wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > i've tried MSYS 1.0.2 and 1.0.3. I've noticed two problems on my Win98
> > box.
> >
> > First of all, command.com doesn't like msys.bat, a syntax error message
is
> > displayed in the DOS console.
> > A small change in msys.bat to see what appends : rem @echo off
> >
> > ...
> > C:\GNU\msys\1.0\bin>rem @echo off
> > C:\GNU\msys\1.0\bin>rem DON'T CHANGE the value of CYGWIN.
> > C:\GNU\msys\1.0\bin>rem Ok.  Go ahead change it.  Just don't cry on my
list
> > if you do.
> > C:\GNU\msys\1.0\bin>set CYGWIN="nowinsymlinks notty notitle binmode
> > nontsec nontea nosmbntsec check_case=strict"
> > Erreur de syntaxe    (something like syntax error)
> > ...
> >
> > Then, i was forced to disobey, and saw that command.com doesn't like
> > "check_case=strict".
> >
>
> Thanks for the report.  I'll remove this option for future releases.
>
> > The only workaround that i have found :
> > set CYGWIN="nowinsymlinks notty notitle binmode nontsec nontea
nosmbntsec"
> > rem check_case=strict"
> > I don't cry but....
> >
>
> :)
>
> > Second point :
> > This is a strange behavior indeed. Sometimes MSYS seems to freeze at
> > startup. I mean, the DOS console freezes and MSYS window doesn't appear.
> > It seems to occur in a very particular condition. I need to reproduce
the
> > problem to find this condition, (i've an idea about it) then if it
concerns
> > MSYS, i'll report back what i've constated.
> >
>
> Thanks for debugging.  Let me know if you need a version of the dll with
> debug symbols.  If you set strace.active = 1 from within gdb you'll be
> able to see the strace output in the gdb command window.
>
> Earnie.
>
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