Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch

[John A Meinel]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:24:20 +0100
> Johannes Berg <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
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> >    
> >
> > > I have tried running the tla binary that was available, but that
> > > didn't work due to the win32 path limit issue; "tla get" seemed
> > > to work, but "tla changes --diffs" wouldn't.
> > >
> > >      
> > Weird. What filesystem are you using?
> >    
>
> Whatever is the default on winxp. This is a known problem. There's
> a huge thread here:
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>     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2003-11/msg00194.html
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> and there's a bunch of others since then.
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> > > Are there any other Arch options or do I need to run an SVN in 
> > > parallel?
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > There's cygwin work by John Meinel.
> >    
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> John's stuff is MinGW not Cygwin. This is actually what I tried last time
> (3-4 months ago), but from talking to Rob Collins today, this problem
> still exists. There is no easy solution which is why it hasn't been
> fixed yet.
>
>  
I can promise you that my work is Cygwin and not mingw. I can also tell 
that this isn't the actual binary that I released, since the paths don't 
look like what I generate.

First, get the binary from:
http://ct.radiology.uiowa.edu/~jfmeinel/tla-short-path
It is tla.exe.bz2 (bzipped to save time)

If you want, you can use the cygwin setup program to get it. I have the 
cygwin repository at
http://ct.radiology.uiowa.edu/~jfmeinel/tla-short-path/cygwin-sources/

Basically, when you run setup.exe when it asks you what mirror you want 
to use, add a new one with the above path. Then you should have tla as 
an package you can install.

The other portion that helps is to have a revision library instead of 
pristine trees. The problem is pristine trees exist in your working 
directory, so you already have a bunch of path up to there.
What I do is I create a C:\RL directory, and then in cygwin I type
tla my-revision-library /cygdrive/c/RL
tla library-config --greedy --sparse /cygdrive/c/RL

> The problem is file paths like this:
>
> {arch}/++pristine-trees/unlocked/libsndfile/libsndfile--mdev/libsndfile--mdev--1.0/address@hidden/libsndfile--mdev--1.0--patch-380/{arch}/libsndfile/libsndfile--devel/libsndfile--devel--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log/patch-1
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> under the {arch} directory. Paths of this length are not handled 
> correctly by windows of any flavour.
>
> Yes, windows is fucked.
>
>  
Agreed, but a few of us are working on it. :)

> Erik
>  
If you want to give it a try and let me know if it works for you. I have 
found cases where it still fails if the project names are too long. But 
libsndfile--mdev--1.0 shouldn't have any problems.

John
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