Re: Use meld in Cygwin

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 12 October 2013 02:27, Jie Zhang <jzhang918 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It has been for a while that meld can not be used in cygwin. I tried
> to bisect the commit which caused it. Below is what I found.

I'm pretty sure those commit SHAs are bad, since none except the last
make any sense. I'm pretty sure that
https://git.gnome.org/browse/meld/commit/?id=8463b8 didn't break
cygwin. However, the crash looks familiar, so...

> 1. commit 8463b8 caused a crash when starting meld in cygwin:

This was fixed shortly thereafter, in
    https://git.gnome.org/browse/meld/commit/?id=bbcf9904b9a2a7656f89908cfe607332fede49e6

> 2. With commit 8463b8 reverted, commit b831bb7 is good, but commit
> 0fccdab is bad. No crash dump. Meld just does not start.

Does your username contain unicode? If so this apparently crashes things:
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709058

The fix looks reasonably simple and should go into the 1.8 branch
soonish. It may involving moving Meld preferences from roaming appdata
to local appdata, but other than that I think it's low impact.

cheers,
Kai