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Re: curses.h (Attn: bash and setup maintainers)


On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Igor Peshansky on 1/23/2006 9:34 AM:
>
> > Most of the messages are diagnostics to track script progress.  The only
> > exceptions are the lines below:
> >
> > ./00bash.sh.done: line 12: ./01bash.bat: No such file or directory
> > cp: cannot stat `./01bash.bat.t': No such file or directory
> > rm: cannot remove `./01bash.bat.t': No such file or directory
> >
> > The first set is from 00bash.sh (it should probably have a test for the
> > existence the .bat file).  Also, in-place edits should work just fine
> > (using 'sed -i -e "/^echo/d; s,REM BASHPATH,$bashpath," 01bash.bat').
>
> Duly noted; bash-3.1-2 will improve on this situation (whenever I get
> time to get that working; I'm still struggling with gracefully
> incorporating upstream patches without wiping them out by rerunning
> g-b-s prep).

Does <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-01/msg00064.html> make sense?

> Actually, now that setup.exe has been updated to use /bin/bash and not
> /bin/sh, the technical reason for me needing two postinstall scripts in
> the first place has been overcome, so I may just simplify back to a
> single script that does it all, rather than staging it through a .bat.

You can't, unfortunately.  Some people may have older versions of
setup.exe on their systems, and blatantly disregard setup's warning that a
newer version is available.  Those systems will then fail to install sh
properly.
	Igor
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