Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

[David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>]

On 3/3/2011 9:44 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> After I flagged these problems [*], I chose to do a clean reinstall of
> TeXLive 2010 (TL2010). After installed its packages (> 2000!), TL2010
> installation proceeds with its post-install actions, mainly generating
> all format files. The installation is done as 'root' (administrator),
> but the format files are created for all system users (as it should),
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20760  3 mar 16.33 foo.fmt
> 
> Now, with recent snapshot (say >= 20110215, including the one released
> today) this does not occur any more,
> 
> -rwx------ 1 root root 20760  3 mar 16.33 foo.fmt
> 
> so, when a simple user builds his/her latex documents the fmt file are
> regenerated in a local directory under HOME.

I just want to mention that I'm facing a similar issue with the
Subversion unit tests. They are failing because the "svn:executable"
property is being added when it's not expected. This happens
automatically when a file is executable and added to Subversion, so it
seems files created by the test suite are executable with 1.7.8 but not
with 1.7.7.

Unfortunately, this is an equally complex system for reproducing the
problem, but I will try to narrow it down to a simple test case.

Like Angelo, I'm using Windows XP Pro SP3.

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