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RE: KDE 2.2.2 beta1 released
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "'Ralf Habacker'" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>,"'Nicholas Wourms'" <nwourms at yahoo dot com>,"'Stephan H. Schug'" <List at schug dot de>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 22:26:01 +1000
- Subject: RE: KDE 2.2.2 beta1 released
There is a new snapshot (v 2.249) available that has Ralf's patch in it.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2002 9:15 PM
> To: Nicholas Wourms; Robert Collins; 'Stephan H. Schug';
> cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: KDE 2.2.2 beta1 released
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> > The same report as before. When it gets to the kdehelp file with a
> > filename of ~83 characters, it goes into an infinite loop
> saying it has to
> > move the file to make the directory. Didn't ralf submit a
> patch for this?
> > I haven't seen it show up on the cygwin-apps-cvs mailing
> list... I'm on
> > windows ME, so it is possible this is a Windows ME gotcha,
> I encourage you
> > tho whip up a virtualpc session and see for yourself if you
> can. If not,
> > I'll try my best to help, but C (not OOP C++) is the extent of my
> > knowledge...
> >
> recent Setup.exe releases are not able to handle files with a
> full pathnames
> length about 100 characters. The reason is, that for tar file
> name length over
> 100 characters the GNU long name extension is used, but
> unfortunally the
> setup.exe'S implementation contains a bug in this case.
>
> This should happen for all windows variants.
>
> Ralf
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