From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7737 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2000 00:05:58 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 13 Oct 2000 00:05:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 29679 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2000 00:05:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12993 Received: (qmail 29672 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2000 00:05:22 -0000 Message-ID: <14822.20922.767260.581609@phl.itasoftware.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:05:14 -0400 (EDT) From: greg@klanderman.net (Greg Klanderman) To: "Andrej Borsenkow" Cc: , "Zsh list" Subject: RE: problems with 3.1.9 on cygwin In-Reply-To: <000001c0334a$8d87fd30$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> References: <14819.63135.137957.342501@phl.itasoftware.com> <000001c0334a$8d87fd30$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Reply-To: greg@klanderman.net X-Mailer: VM 6.62 under 21.1 (patch 9) "Canyonlands" XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi Andrej, Sorry for the false alarm, after upgrading cygwin (from b20, embarrassingly enough) zsh works great... Thanks so much for your efforts porting zsh to cygwin, I use windows as little as possible but several people I work with do, and they will certainly appreciate it, as will I whenever I'm helping one of them out! I guess now "bash" is completely without reason to exist... Greg >>>>> Andrej Borsenkow writes: >> >> 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