RE: problems with 3.1.9 on cygwin

["Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>]

>
> Hello,
>
> So I just noticed that 3.1.9 is advertised to work under cygwin...
> but is it supposed to work *well* yet?
>
> I notice that "echo *" seems to only ever yield "no matches found".
>

mw1g017@MW1G17C% echo *
DocReader.exe ctags.exe docreader.ini gvim.exe iSiloC32.exe runzsh.bat
runzsh.ba
t~ vimrun.exe xxd.exe

> And there seems to be a bug where setting (but not exporting) a
> variable in one script and 'source'ing another does not result in the
> second script seeing that variable.  But I've not been able to
> reproduce this with a succinct example.
>

mw1g017@MW1G17C% cat foo.zsh
#!/bin/zsh

foo=1234
source /tmp/bar.zsh
mw1g017@MW1G17C% cat bar.zsh
#!/bin/zsh.exe

echo $foo
mw1g017@MW1G17C% source foo.zsh
1234

Could you provide example of script that exibits an error?

> Can someone fill me in on the state of cygwin support?
>

Well, I cannot comment on stock 3.1.9 at all. Current CVS version does work;
3.1.9-dev-6 should work OOTB if you have recent enough Cygwin version (with
one minor problem). I use (and ported it :-) under cygwin-1.1.4 and
binutils-20000722-1.

I must admint, I do not spend much time in Zsh under Cygwin, but almost all
regression tests passed (failed are related to unsupported features).

-andrej