Odd Behavior on Cygwin

[Chris Johns]

On 6/5/20 3:46 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> I have a test sweep going on Cygwin and there are a couple of oddities I 
> would like some advice on:
> 
> 1. It appears that the same command I used on Linux and FreeBSD is not 
> managing to get mail to the build@ list. Any ideas?

What is the detailed error reported in the log or output? What does the 
mail server think is happening?

> ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --mail --mail-to=build at rtems.org 
> <mailto:build at rtems.org> --mail-from=joel at rtems.org 
> <mailto:joel at rtems.org> --keep-going --log=l-aarch64-5.txt 
> --prefix=/home/jrs007/rtems-cron-5.0.0-m2005-1/tools/5 5/rtems-aarch64

It is a python only SMTP client and should be portable.

> 2. $HOME in a script being nohup'ed was being replaced with 
> c:/msys64/.... and not /home/... . Any idea what this was an indication 
> of? When I ran the script directly, the expansion was as expected. I 
> can't seem to reproduce this in a small test case. Any suggestions?

Not really, this is the sort of stuff that makes using cygwin hard. Is 
your path clean and only using cygwin executables?

> The build sweep is going (slowly as expected) and it is on the second 
> tool target. It will take a long time (as in days) to finish.

Thanks
Chris