RE: problems with 3.1.9 on cygwin

[greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Klanderman)]

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 <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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