or maybe there aren't many people building on cygwin because of issues like the ones I reported - cygwin packages can fall quite behind and coreutils is not available on cygwinports either - I know I was close to giving up and just working on linux
Zartaj --- On Wed, 12/19/12, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 12/19/2012 06:25 AM, Pádraig > Brady wrote: > > On 12/19/2012 12:57 PM, Z. Majeed wrote: > >> Thanks for fixing all the issues - are you folks > open to adding a > >> ginstall.exe manifest for the cygwin build? > > > > I presume the cygwin package puts one in place, > > and it would be nice to keep windows specific stuff > there. > > There is a related thread here: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00293.html > > Correct - when I build coreutils for the cygwin distro, the > manifest > file is built as part of the cygwin-specific patches that I > apply. I'm > not sure whether it makes sense to try and upstream > something that is so > platform specific; on the one hand, it would make > out-of-the-box > development on cygwin easier; on the other hand, we don't > have too many > people doing out-of-the-box development (most people rely on > the > pre-built coreutils in the cygwin distro). > > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com > +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > >
