Re: REALLY need help prior to 1.3.4 release

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

>>>>I updated to "current" CVS last night around 1am EDT, and rebuilt 
>>>>cygwin.  After installing that, I saw the same behavior as before: raw 
>>>>read worked, raw write did not (Permission denied).  :-(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>This was really strange.  Everything worked fine for me until I ejected
>>>my floppy.  From that point on, I couldn't write to any floppy.  I had to
>>>scroll back several times to convince myself that I wasn't
>>>hallucinating.
>>>
>>>Anyway, since I could eventually duplicate the problem, I could actually
>>>fix it.
>>>
>>>So, how about *now*, Chuck?  Does it work *now*?


Yes, it works now.  raw read.  raw write.  eject.  insert.  raw write. 
All works fine.

>>
>>Per the earlier discussion about autoconf-2.13/2.52, I was attempting to 
>>do a side-by-side installation of the two, and decided to run the 
>>checks.  (eventaully to write a script that parses configure.in for the 
>>AC_REQ[] line to determine which one to call, etc).
>>
>>2.13 had "226 expected passes, 33 unexpected failures".  (On both 
>>cygwin-20011001, and cygwin-1.3.3-2).  This is the same as our previous 
>>experiments, if you remember those.
>>
>>2.52 was failing all over the place with cygwin-20011001.  (With 1.3.2, 
>>we had finally gotten autoconf to pass all tests).  I'm currently 
>>running the tests again with 1.3.3-2, to make sure the 'breakage' 
>>occurred during the 1.3.4 development cycle and not before.  So far I'm 
>>passing all tests with 1.3.3-2 (but this'll take several more hours to 
>>complete on my machine).
>>
> 
> There have been a considerable number of changes since 2001/10/01.  I
> didn't ask for volunteers to check this out until 10/3.  That is when I
> ostensibly finished all of my infrastructure changes.
> 
> I wouldn't have expected that things would actually be broken on
> 2001/10/01 but it certainly makes sense to use a newer snapshot (or,
> even better, CVS) if possible.


Okay, I'm re-running the tests now, under my fresh-from-the-oven 
cgywin1-20011005.  We'll see what the results are tomorrow morning.

--Chuck



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