I have a designed-for-Linux program that doesn't run on Cygwin because it wants to use the X/Open Catgets message catalog functions from the GNU C library. Searching the Cygwin mailing list, I see others have had the same problem.
So I extracted the Catgets function (along with a bunch of utilities it uses) from Glibc into a package of its own that works on Cygwin. It consists of a libcatgets library, its nl_types.h header file, and the gencat program. Would this be a good thing to distribute as a Cygwin package? setup.hint: sdesc: "catgets message catalog API; gencat" ldesc: "catgets library functions (catopen, catclose, catgets) for accessing message catalogs, and gencat program for generating message catalogs. From GNU C library; used by many programs written for Linux" category: Devel Text Libs requires: cygwin -- Bryan Henderson Phone 408-621-2000 San Jose, California