Re: cygwin patches for gnulib relocation code [Was: Re: Bug in libiconv?]

2011-01-27 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/27/2011 3:12 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/27/2011 11:35 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Eric (Blake), you're active on the gnulib list. Care to comment? > > Answering with my gnulib maintainer hat on (and yes, I am one of the > core gnulib maintainers) - Bruno Haible likes to keep cygwin 1.5 >

Re: cygwin patches for gnulib relocation code [Was: Re: Bug in libiconv?]

2011-01-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/27/2011 11:35 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 1/27/2011 12:08 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Cygwin Versions prior to 1.7.7 are not support anyway. > > This is merely semantics. You're saying that *the cygwin project* does > not support older cygwins. However, that doesn't mean *other projec

cygwin patches for gnulib relocation code [Was: Re: Bug in libiconv?]

2011-01-27 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/27/2011 12:08 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Cygwin Versions prior to 1.7.7 are not support anyway. This is merely semantics. You're saying that *the cygwin project* does not support older cygwins. However, that doesn't mean *other projects* have the same policy -- see, for instance, upstream