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bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken
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Z. Majeed |
Subject: |
bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:46:15 -0800 (PST) |
or maybe there aren't many people building on cygwin because of issues like the
ones I reported - cygwin packages can fall quite behind and coreutils is not
available on cygwinports either - I know I was close to giving up and just
working on linux
Zartaj
--- On Wed, 12/19/12, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 12/19/2012 06:25 AM, Pádraig
> Brady wrote:
> > On 12/19/2012 12:57 PM, Z. Majeed wrote:
> >> Thanks for fixing all the issues - are you folks
> open to adding a
> >> ginstall.exe manifest for the cygwin build?
> >
> > I presume the cygwin package puts one in place,
> > and it would be nice to keep windows specific stuff
> there.
> > There is a related thread here:
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00293.html
>
> Correct - when I build coreutils for the cygwin distro, the
> manifest
> file is built as part of the cygwin-specific patches that I
> apply. I'm
> not sure whether it makes sense to try and upstream
> something that is so
> platform specific; on the one hand, it would make
> out-of-the-box
> development on cygwin easier; on the other hand, we don't
> have too many
> people doing out-of-the-box development (most people rely on
> the
> pre-built coreutils in the cygwin distro).
>
> --
> Eric Blake eblake redhat com
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> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
>
- bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken, Z. Majeed, 2012/12/17
- bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken, Pádraig Brady, 2012/12/17
- bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken, Z. Majeed, 2012/12/17
- bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken, Pádraig Brady, 2012/12/17
- bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken, Z. Majeed, 2012/12/19
- bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken, Pádraig Brady, 2012/12/19
- bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken, Eric Blake, 2012/12/19
- bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken,
Z. Majeed <=
- bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken, Paul Eggert, 2012/12/19
bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/12/18
bug#13210: [PATCH] maint: cygwin build broken, Pádraig Brady, 2012/12/19