Re: libc project ports

2011-09-20 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2011-09-20 10:51Z, toto titi wrote: I sent a few years ago a question to the libc project ports mailing list (http://cygwin.com/ml/libc-ports/) without knowing this email would be stored and made available to everyone on the internet. My name and main email address clearly appears in it

Re: libc project ports

2011-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:31:55AM +, Greg Chicares wrote: On 2011-09-20 10:51Z, toto titi wrote: I sent a few years ago a question to the libc project ports mailing list (http://cygwin.com/ml/libc-ports/) without knowing this email would be stored and made available to everyone on the

Re: libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:33:02PM +0100, Andy Moreton wrote: Hi, I've noticed that the info files for libc and libm get installed twice: ~ cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libm.info cygwin-1.7.7-1 ~ cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libm.info.gz cygwin-doc-1.7-1 ~ cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libc.info

Re: libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 1 16:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:33:02PM +0100, Andy Moreton wrote: Hi, I've noticed that the info files for libc and libm get installed twice: ~ cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libm.info cygwin-1.7.7-1 ~ cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libm.info.gz

Re: libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread René Berber
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] I'll drop the info dir entirely for the next release. Please don't do that, there is useful information there from many packages that explicitly put a short version on the man page, and the full documentation in the info file(s), for instance read the last page of

Re: libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/01/2010 04:31 PM, René Berber wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] I'll drop the info dir entirely for the next release. Please don't do that, there is useful information there from many packages that explicitly put a short version on the man page, and the full documentation in the

Re: libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread René Berber
Eric Blake wrote: On 09/01/2010 04:31 PM, René Berber wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] I'll drop the info dir entirely for the next release. Please don't do that, there is useful information there from many packages that explicitly put a short version on the man page, and the full

Re: libc header questions

2005-09-19 Thread Hiroki Sakagami
On 9/17/05, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 17 15:08, Hiroki Sakagami wrote: Hi, I have two questions about libc include headers. 1. Is there any reason socklen_t is defined as a macro instead of typedef in cygwin/socket.h? Is this a problem for you? The

Re: libc header questions

2005-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 15:08, Hiroki Sakagami wrote: Hi, I have two questions about libc include headers. 1. Is there any reason socklen_t is defined as a macro instead of typedef in cygwin/socket.h? Is this a problem for you? The reasons are plain historical. I don't see that converting it

Re: libc

2004-04-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Darryl Scott wrote: Hi! I cannot find any reference to a problem with this in the Cygwin docs, redhat site etc. Libc has as a standard catgets. But catgets and catopen are absent from the cygwin implementation and gencat and nl_types are not to be found. So where can I find either the source

RE: libc

2004-04-19 Thread Richard Campbell
Libc has as a standard catgets. But catgets and catopen are absent from the cygwin implementation and gencat and nl_types are not to be found. So where can I find either the source for these or a technical spec? Switched to the main cygwin list. Cygwin uses newlib.

RE: libc

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Richard Campbell Sent: 19 April 2004 15:12 Libc has as a standard catgets. But catgets and catopen are absent from the cygwin implementation and gencat and nl_types are not to be found. So where can I find either the source for