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On 25-09-2010 15:50:09 +0200, Al wrote: |
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> I nearly understand what is happening, but I still haven't a workaround. |
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> What is happening? |
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> During installaton of the newly compiled ncurses "cd" changes into the |
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> image directory. There are three files: |
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> cygncurses5.dll |
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> tic.exe |
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> toe.exe |
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> "Bash" depends on cygncurses5.dll. In the moment "ln" is called (part |
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> of bash), "bash" forks. It notices that there is the new |
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> cygncurses5.dll in the PATH now, because the current directory is |
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> always in PATH. It findes out, that this one has a different address. |
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Why would $ED/... be in PATH? Is . in PATH? |
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> Certainly this is not a perfect description of what is going on. What |
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> does it examine the new cygncurses5.dll? Why doesn't it simply use |
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> that one, that is already memory. Maybe my explanation is completely |
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> wrong. |
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> I tried to emerge from ash to avoid bash, but that doesn't help. I |
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> think bash is always drawn in by "ln". |
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> Have you been faced with a similar issue on INTERIX? What did you do |
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> as workaround? |
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no, but they do suffer from "file in use" problems, see: |
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http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/prefix/windows/interix/profile.bashrc?revision=1.4&view=markup |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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