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On 08/23/2010 02:33 PM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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just out of curiosity, i installed a current cygwin on a server 2003r2 |
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today, and played around a little (as i remembered it being rather |
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unstable). i wanted to re-make up my opinion about it, in regards of it |
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being suitable to run gentoo prefix (or anything else...). |
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i tried ./configuring a rather simple package (parity [1]). first i |
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forgot to set a variable, and configure stopped - nothing wrong with |
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that. but a simple "export var=blah; <up> <up> <return>" made the sh.exe |
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called by configure core 6 or 7 times in a row, way up in configure, |
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during checking the printf/echo semantics of the system. that not only |
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messed up the console output, but of course gave wrong configure |
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results, as the checks erroneously went wrong. |
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so... to summarize that: for me, cygwin is absolutely unusable for |
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anything serious. i know interix is only on enterprise systems, but |
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that's the price you'll have to pay to get something that _works_. |
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cygwin does certainly not. sad. i feel that our decision to take the |
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interix route was the right one. there's not a perfect world there |
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either, but it's all problems that i can overcome (see my recently |
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created suacomp library [2], which fixes nearly all of them). |
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I'm really curious if I'm the only person in the world that keeps having |
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such problems (on fresh & clean systems!). how the heck can people |
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develop software on cygwin if it crashes constantly, randomly, and |
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unreproducible. |
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[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/parity/ |
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[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/suacomp/git/?branch=master |
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just my 2 cents. :) |
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regards, markus |
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