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Most welcome. Its one tool i was sorely missing from msys toolset, so 
its great to hear it made it into the official package. If theres 
anything else i can help with let me know.

Best wishes Ralph Engels

On 8/18/2011 7:47 AM, ralph engels wrote:
> rsync 3.8 (tested and fully working).

FYI, I've taken your (and Cesar Romero's) port of msys-rsync and created
a mingw-get compatible package set from it, along with an .xml manifest.
I'll be adding that to the distro soon.  Thanks for your work.

--
Chuck

Den 25-08-2011 16:59, Vincent Torri skrev:
> I did some mingw packages for some of them (installable with mingw-get) :
>
> libgpg-error
> libgrypt
>
> and another dozen more (libcurl and some dependencies)
>
> Vincent Torri
>
>
Sounds good Vincent. Hopefully they will prove usefull to others.
If anyone have special wishes for something to be ported to Msys let me 
know.

Best Wishes Ralph Engels (revelator)

Hey,

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, ralph engels wrote:

> Hello,
> I  successfully  ported  a  few things to Msys that might be of use to
> others.
>
> rsync 3.8 (tested and fully working).
> OpenSP 1.5.2 (ported from original).
> OpenJade 1.3.3.1 (ported from cygwin repo).
> cocom 0996 (ported from cygwin repo).
> libgcrypt  1.5.0  (ported  from  original)  needs  to  be  built  with
> -disable-asm
> libgpg-error 1.10 (ported from original)
> libxslt 1.1.26 (ported from original) used by docbook.
> docbook (ported from cygwins works great).
> coreutils-1.10-1 (ported from cygwin repo needed quite a few hacks but
> seems to work now).

I did some mingw packages for some of them (installable with mingw-get) :

libgpg-error
libgrypt

and another dozen more (libcurl and some dependencies)

Vincent Torri

> I can make a patchset from my sources for you to review, the tools can
> allready be downloaded from my own project page at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cbadvanced/files/
>
> But  it  might  be  better  saving  these  ports  on as many places as
> possible  as  i noticed someone allready had success porting rsync but
> went awol so the patchset was lost.
>
> Best Wishes Ralph Engels.
>
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> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:48:45 +0000
> From: Greg Chicares <gch...@sb...>
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-msys] MSYS - why does sending relative posix paths
> 	to some	windows applications fail?
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> 
> On 2011-08-17 05:04Z, Alister Hood wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone could tell me why the first three of the
> > commands below all work if I run them in the msys shell, but if I
run
> > the fourth explorer gives me the message "The path '../msys/test'
does
> > not exist or is not a directory."
> >
> > $ notepad .\\msys.bat
> > $ notepad ./msys.bat
> > $ explorer .\\msys
> > $ explorer ./msys
> 
> Try it in CMD.EXE:
> 
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Arktos>f:
> F:\>cd msys
> 
> These all work:
> 
> F:\msys\1.0>notepad .\\msys.bat
> F:\msys\1.0>notepad ./msys.bat
> F:\msys\1.0>explorer ..\..\msys
> 
> But these fail:
> 
> F:\msys\1.0>explorer ..\\..\\msys
> The path '..\\..\\msys' does not exist or is not a directory.
> 
> F:\msys\1.0>explorer ../../msys
> The path '../../msys' does not exist or is not a directory.
> 
> > I've always had trouble with the path handling in msys, and it seems
to
> > come back to this.  I presume it isn't a problem with my specific
setup?
> 
> It's reproducible without running the MSYS shell. Almost all msw
programs
> recognize '/' as a path separator as well as '\'; it seems that
'explorer'
> does not (and doesn't like duplicated '\\' either).

Ah, right.
I assumed that msys converted paths in posix form to normal windows
form, including changing the slashes... but clearly I was wrong.
I also thought that explorer accepted the full posix notation if using
absolute paths, but I guess instead of `explorer /c/windows` I must have
actually been using `start /c/windows`, which doesn't help much if I
want to use the /select switch for explorer.
But this script does almost everything I think I need:

#!/bin/sh
# show a file in windows explorer 
explorer `cmd //c echo $@|sed -e 's#\\/#\\\\#g'`,/select

Thanks,
Alister

Hello Teemu,

Thursday, August 18, 2011, 8:31:00 PM, you wrote:

> On 18.8.2011 14:47, ralph engels wrote:

>> coreutils-1.10-1 (ported from cygwin repo needed quite a few hacks but
>> seems to work now).

> Did you use existing patches from the Msys coreutils or just Cygwin's?

> Teemu

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I used part of the existing from msys coreutils besides cygwins. i had
to  change a few things because the first build would make executables
with no permissions on win32. Atm they are on my site as a beta cause
im not totally sure my fixing the permission problem is 100% correct.
also  i  had  to  remove EILSEQ calls and replace them by EINVAL since
msys   api   seems   to  lack  this  define. Also there was a few more
places with reopen that needed to be disabled on msys.

-- 
Best regards,
 ralph                            mailto:ral...@gm...

On 18.8.2011 14:47, ralph engels wrote:

> coreutils-1.10-1 (ported from cygwin repo needed quite a few hacks but
> seems to work now).

Did you use existing patches from the Msys coreutils or just Cygwin's?

Teemu

Hello,
I  successfully  ported  a  few things to Msys that might be of use to
others.

rsync 3.8 (tested and fully working).
OpenSP 1.5.2 (ported from original).
OpenJade 1.3.3.1 (ported from cygwin repo).
cocom 0996 (ported from cygwin repo).
libgcrypt  1.5.0  (ported  from  original)  needs  to  be  built  with
-disable-asm
libgpg-error 1.10 (ported from original)
libxslt 1.1.26 (ported from original) used by docbook.
docbook (ported from cygwins works great).
coreutils-1.10-1 (ported from cygwin repo needed quite a few hacks but
seems to work now).

I can make a patchset from my sources for you to review, the tools can
allready be downloaded from my own project page at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cbadvanced/files/

But  it  might  be  better  saving  these  ports  on as many places as
possible  as  i noticed someone allready had success porting rsync but
went awol so the patchset was lost.

Best Wishes Ralph Engels.

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On 2011-08-17 05:04Z, Alister Hood wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me why the first three of the
> commands below all work if I run them in the msys shell, but if I run
> the fourth explorer gives me the message "The path '../msys/test' does
> not exist or is not a directory." 
> 
> $ notepad .\\msys.bat
> $ notepad ./msys.bat
> $ explorer .\\msys
> $ explorer ./msys

Try it in CMD.EXE:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Arktos>f:
F:\>cd msys

These all work:

F:\msys\1.0>notepad .\\msys.bat
F:\msys\1.0>notepad ./msys.bat
F:\msys\1.0>explorer ..\..\msys

But these fail:

F:\msys\1.0>explorer ..\\..\\msys
The path '..\\..\\msys' does not exist or is not a directory.

F:\msys\1.0>explorer ../../msys
The path '../../msys' does not exist or is not a directory.

> I've always had trouble with the path handling in msys, and it seems to
> come back to this.  I presume it isn't a problem with my specific setup?

It's reproducible without running the MSYS shell. Almost all msw programs
recognize '/' as a path separator as well as '\'; it seems that 'explorer'
does not (and doesn't like duplicated '\\' either).

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me why the first three of the
commands below all work if I run them in the msys shell, but if I run
the fourth explorer gives me the message "The path '../msys/test' does
not exist or is not a directory." 

$ notepad .\\msys.bat
$ notepad ./msys.bat
$ explorer .\\msys
$ explorer ./msys

I've always had trouble with the path handling in msys, and it seems to
come back to this.  I presume it isn't a problem with my specific setup?


Thanks,
Alister