On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:07:15PM -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote: >On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 22:34, Robert Collins wrote: >> >> === >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Thomas Fitzsimmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:08 PM >> Subject: patch to allow newlib to compile when winsup not present >> >> >> > I've applied this patch to newlib, so that it will compile for the >> > i686-pc-cygwin target, when winsup is not in the source tree. >> > Previously, the newlib build failed because pthread_t was undefined. >> >> This is incorrect. Cygwin has pthread_kill, so you _will need_ the >> cygwin header files to compile newlib for i686-pc-cygwin, regardless of >> having winsup in the source tree or not. >> > >Then would a better solution be to include >winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/types.h in the newlib distribution?
What's wrong with saying that you need the winsup directory or a cygwin installation to compile the cygwin versions of newlib? cgf
