Augtool almost works in Windows Server 2012 R2

[isosadam]

Hoping you can help, because I REALLY want to be able to use augtool in Windows (cygwin) like I can in Linux. The tool I'm building needs to be able to edit files (.xml, .sh, .properties) in Linux and on Windows, and I'd like to be able to use 1 tool for both platforms.

I've tried installing the 1.8 latest tar.gz straight up and also using the cygport method. Both have the same results. I'm using augtool from a bash script like so....

#!/bin/bash

cat <<EOF | augtool -At "Xml.lns incl ${TEMP_FILE}"
set /files/${TEMP_FILE}/Server/Service/Connector/#attribute/port "${APP_PORT}"
set /files/${TEMP_FILE}/Server/Service/Connector/#attribute/proxyName "${PROXY_NAME}"
set /files/${TEMP_FILE}/Server/Service/Connector/#attribute/proxyPort "${PROXY_PORT}"
set /files/${TEMP_FILE}/Server/Service/Connector/#attribute/scheme "${PROXY_SCHEME}"
set /files/${TEMP_FILE}/Server/Service/Connector/#attribute/secure "true"
save
EOF

$TEMP_FILE ends up with the whole file being truncated except for the "Service" and "Connector" tags.

<Server><Service><Connector port="8080"
                 proxyName="jira-stage.example.com"
                 proxyPort="443"
                 scheme="https" secure="true"></Connector>
</Service>
</Server>

This works GREAT in Linux, but I can't figure out why it is behaving differently in Cygwin.
Thanks - Adam

[lutter]

Hi Adam,

first off, this is fantastic - getting Augeas to work on Windows has been a longstanding thorny issue, and I didn't know about the cygport effort (see for example issue #395)

One thing you can try is put print /augeas//errors into your commands after save to see if anything gets reported, though it might well be that something during save fails silently; in that case, I fear you'd have to pull out a debugger and see if you can spot anything.

Unfortunately, I am about to go on vacation till mid-July and won't have time to look into this myself until after I get back. But it might be worth posting about your issue to the mailing list and see if anybody there is some insight into this issue.

[isosadam]

Thanks for the reply! I'm hoping there is just some cygwin package I'm missing that is an undocumented dependancy. I sent an email to the list, maybe someone will know.

Is there an implementation of memstream that I'm missing? Sorry, I don't know much about how Augeas is built.

A quick find on the filesystem turns up this..../usr/src/debug/cygwin-2.8.0-1/newlib/libc/stdio/open_memstream.c. Not sure if that helps in anyway....