Re: make_export.awk

2000-12-17 Thread Wilfredo Sanchez
> What makes you think the awk solution is any more portable than the Perl > solution? awk is a standard Unix tool and has a specification in my copy of the CAE X/OPEN docco. Perl is not. Add to that the fact that awk is a much simpler program, can be had under a BSD license, and much is ea

RE: [wrowe@rowe-clan.net: RE: *.exports in distro bundle, use of , Perl on Windows (was: Re: make_export.awk)]

2000-12-17 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
> From: Cliff Woolley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 7:48 PM > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The Apache Group has looked at Cygwin before. We do not > plan to include > > support for Cygwin right now. That may change in the future, but we > > dislike the lice

Re: cvs commit: apr CHANGES aclocal.m4

2000-12-17 Thread Jeff Trawick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > trawick 00/12/17 05:12:12 > > Modified:.CHANGES aclocal.m4 > Log: > Tighten up the check for getaddrinfo(). If it can't figure out > the appropriate address family for 127.0.0.1, it fails. > Unfortunately, Tru64 fails this test so we won't do

Beta reminder

2000-12-17 Thread rbb
This message is meant to serve as a reminder to everybody and as a STATUS message. I will be updating STATUS immediately after sending this message. The current plan is to release the first Apache beta on Friday December 22. That also means that APR is basically hitting beta status, at least

RE: [wrowe@rowe-clan.net: RE: *.exports in distro bundle, use of , Perl on Windows (was: Re: make_export.awk)]

2000-12-17 Thread Cliff Woolley
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Apache Group has looked at Cygwin before. We do not plan to include > support for Cygwin right now. That may change in the future, but we > dislike the license. Just as an FYI-aside: Apache 2.0 and APR actually *do* build and run correctly almost out of the b

RE: [wrowe@rowe-clan.net: RE: *.exports in distro bundle, use of , Perl on Windows (was: Re: make_export.awk)]

2000-12-17 Thread rbb
> > Nak, no, you cannot incorporate cygwin on win32 for apr/apache, > > and, no, Win32 doesn't run ./configure, and no, we don't expect > > anyone on win32 to handle installation of anything beyond the > > easy-to-install activestate perl, or we incoroporate the Lucient > > licensed awk. Apr

RE: [wrowe@rowe-clan.net: RE: *.exports in distro bundle, use of , Perl on Windows (was: Re: make_export.awk)]

2000-12-17 Thread Mo DeJong
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > I guess I don't follow the logic there. How exactly would Windows > > developers run the configure script if they did not have Cygwin > > installed? Last I checked, perl did not read sh files, so you > > would need to have a version of /bin/sh o