> >In other words, unless someone submits a patch to cygwin with a compliant > strcoll, you are stuck with non-locale sorts on cygwin. > > > Don't you mean that newlib is the one that requires the patch?
Either place would work, but the philosophy of newlib is that it is for embedded systems, and my understanding is that Jeff does not want to add locale support to newlib any time soon. A cygwin-local replacement for strcoll would not affect any other newlib targets. But regardless of whether it is newlib or cygwin that is patched, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>! -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
