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RE: svn-0.14.1-r2927-setup.exe & cygwin

From: Barry Scott <barry.alan.scott_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: 2002-08-22 01:29:07 CEST

Doh... You start Cygwin Shell and then type svn ci (?) and the
world breaks... O.K. I see diff.exe break now.

                BArry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blair Zajac [mailto:blair@orcaware.com]
> Sent: 21 August 2002 22:29
> To: barry@barrys-emacs.org
> Cc: Subversion Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: svn-0.14.1-r2927-setup.exe & cygwin
>
>
> Barry Scott wrote:
> >
> > > Agreed on installing the utils into SVN's local directory.
> > >
> > > But this doesn't work around the issue of conflicting Cygwin dlls.
> >
> > Of course it solves the DLL problem. Cygwin installs DLL
> versions it like in
> > one dir. Then SVN installs DLL versions in another dir. THere is nothing
> > that
> > requires them to match. There is nothing that requires SVN to place its
> > DLLs on the system path.
>
> Well, it's not working for me from a Cygwin shell. Read my original
> email starting this thread for the original problem and description.
>
> >
> > > Subversion should check for an existing Cygwin install. If it
> > > finds it, it can add the Cygwin bin directory to SVN's "App Paths"
> > > so that svn can find diff.exe, diff3.exe, cyg*dll. If Cygwin
> > > does not exist on the system, then as you said, put the utilities
> > > and the dlls in a SVN subdirectory.
> >
> > Personally I care more about Cygwin and SVN being upgradable
> independently
> > rather then saving disk space on a couple of small DLLs.
>
> I agree, but only if the above issue can be resolved.
>
> Best,
> Blair
>
> --
> Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>
> Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/
>

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