Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla

[John A Meinel]

John A Meinel wrote:
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:23:52 -0600
> > John A Meinel <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I have a branch of the current tla code at
> > >
> > > address@hidden/tla--short-path--1.3
> > >
> > > My archive is available on the supermirror at:
> > > http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net/address@hidden
> >
> >
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > I run cygwin, and have never really had the need to setup Msys. If 
> > > you have that, do you want to try compiling?
> > >
> > > You need to use "configure --with-short-paths=1".
> > >
> > > If you're interested, thanks. If not, no big deal.
> >
> >
> >
> > John,
> >
> > I grabbed a copy of that, but I couldn't figure out how to build it.
> > There only seems to be one configure script and thats in the libneon 
> > directory.
> >
> > Erik
>
>
> Sorry, I wasn't very clear (and didn't respond fast because I was 
> sleeping :).
>
> The easiest way is probably to build from a configuration. So you start 
> with:
>
> tla get address@hidden/dists--tla--1.3 tla-1.3
> cd tla-1.3
> tla build-config tla-short-path.cfg
> cd src
> mkdir +build
> cd +build
> ../configure --with-short-paths=1
>     (optionally --prefix=/usr/local or whatever)
> make
> make test
> make install (if you want)
>
> These are the normal steps to build tla, so I didn't repeat them. You 
> will also need to have registered the official tla archive, since I only 
> modify one portion of it.
>
> So you will probably also need to
> tla register-archive 
> http://www.seyza.com/archives/address@hidden/
>
> John
> =:->

I just double checked, and there are 2 caveats with the current system, 
both of them from libhackerlab (which I did not modify.).

1) The first time you run make it will fail. Just run make again and it 
will succeed. (hackerlab creates a temporary executable to generate an 
output file and then deletes it. But on cygwin/windows the file ends 
with a .exe, so rm cannot find it to delete it. Don't worry, though, the 
 dependency is filled)

2) make test will fail on "unidata-tests". The problem is cygwin picks a 
different line ending if you pipe something through sed, then it does if 
you cat it directly to a file. (sed opens it's input in text mode, 
removing CRLF, while just a redirect preserves the endings).

  The simplest workaround is to edit the file:
    src/hackerlab/tests/unidata-tests/unit-unidata.sh line 16
  and change the line from
   ./unit-unidata > ,tmp2
  to
   ./unit-unidata | sed -e '' > ,tmp2

  sed -e '' does nothing, but it allows the output to be filtered 
through the same program.

I'm pretty sure with those 2 workarounds, everything plays nice.
John
=:->

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