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Re: 1.7.0-19: Still unexplained path problems


On Jul 22 06:04, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/22/2008 3:45 AM:
> |> application-specific initialization failed: Can't find a usable
> init.tcl in
> |> the following directories:
> |>    //?/E:/cygwin/share/tcl8.4 //?/E:cygwin/share/tcl8.4
> |> //?/E:cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4 //?/E:share/tcl8.4 //?/E:cygwin/library 
> //?/E
> |> :library //?/E:../tcl8.4.1/library
> |
> | As I said in my first reply, this is likely a problem in autogen, TCL or
> | brltty.
>
> I can rule out autogen and brltty.  I can't build git on 1.7.0 either, for
> the same reason, for several months now.  Something in tcl is not very
> happy with 1.7.0.  And since I'm relegated to building git under 1.5.x, I
> can't test git's claim to using IPv6.

Can you create an strace of a testcase (building git or something)
which shows where and how the paths are generated?  Maybe we can
workaround this in Cygwin itself by tweaking paths missing a / or \
after the colon...

> Not to mention that cygwin's tcl is very old - I had to apply a patch to
> git to work around the fact that cygwin's tcl doesn't know how to redirect
> stderr, when compared with all the other distros that have a more modern
> version.

Yeah.  It would be cool if we could get a new tcl version at one point.


Corinna

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