On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 06:53:59PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> [snip] > >> I appreciate the research *very* much but this is not the appropriate > >> mailing list for this. > >> > >> I wouldn't bother to comment but I would hate to see a bunch of "This is > >> just for Corinna for when she gets back" messages here in the next N > >> weeks. > > > >Sorry about the mistake. I just wanted to tie the thread started here, > >which > >reported the problem and to which Corinna responded, with my research on > >the main list. > > > >I do understand that problem reports go to the main list, even for apps. > > Actually, now that I've generated a fix for the problem, as it turns > out, this *is* an issue for cygwin-apps. > > Fixing the problem requires generating a new DLL with a new export -- > fdopen64. If there are any packages built which use fdopen they could > conceivably fail in the same manner as patch. Sigh. > > This means that we may have to go through the "rebuild packages" exercise > again for cygwin 1.5.1. I will release a 1.5.1 version of cygwin shortly > after generating a snapshot. > > I'll also rebuild patch, in Corinna's absence, fwiw.
Sigh. > David, I am very glad that you took the time to track this problem down. > If I had stuck with my original plan and let Corinna deal with it when she > got back, then there is a possibility that more packages would have been > ported and more people would conceivably have to duplicate some effort. Very good catch David! Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org