Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch/tla on cygwin (again)

[John A Meinel]

Bob Tanner wrote:

> I followed this thread 
>
>         http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2003-11/msg00194.html
>
> to its end
>
>         http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2003-11/msg00756.html
>
> It seems this project just stopped.
>
> Is there any status update on arch/cygwin other then the wiki?
>
> I attempted to build tla-1.3.1 on cygwin, ran into the usual issues listed on 
> the mailing list.
>  
Are you building Tom's version? Or the cygwin specific one?

> /bin/sh vs /bin/bash
> unit-unidata test
>
> My journey began because of this error:
>
> $ tla commit
> Password:
> Error during call to `vu_access' for /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
> Settings/tanner/My Documents/My 
> Downloads/very/long/path/to/project/{arch}/++pt/u/address@hidden/YYYYYYYYY--mainline--0.1--base-0/{arch}/,,inode-sigs/address@hidden 
> (File name too long)
> PANIC: I/O error
>  
There are a few different versions for tla on cygwin. The official 
version doesn't work.
Lode Leroy has a binary distribution (which I feel *almost* works but 
not completely)
I took his changes and put them into a arch repository. I'm at present 
(as in worked on it yesterday) getting all of the tests to pass.
The branch is available from:
http://ct.radiology.uiowa.edu/~jfmeinel/archives/address@hidden
I have some testing builds of it at
http://ct.radiology.uiowa.edu/~jfmeinel/tla-short-path/testing/

I also have a build of my short-path version at:
http://ct.radiology.uiowa.edu/~jfmeinel/tla-short-path/

The short-path version tries to make paths shorter to avoid problems. 
However long category/branch/archive names can still run out of space. 
Lode's version uses the fact that on Windows (unless you disable it) 
every filename/directory has a short dos 8.3 name. Which means they can 
be created with their full name, and then accessed later by a shorter path.
It works, though afterwards Explorer and most general tools don't like 
the directories.

Summary, things are progressing, if you want, try the binaries, maybe 
check back once in a while.

John
=:->

PS> I'm also looking into using Lode's work on baz, theoretically it 
should be easy to do.

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