Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch On Cygwin(Win32)

[Naushit Sakarvadia]

Ron,

Is there anyway I can download(binary) .dll and tar and file utils?

or you can email me zipped files.
I can do rest of the testing.

Thanks
naushit.



> Parker, Ron wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Robert Collins [mailto:address@hidden
> >
> >
> >>Well, I'm happy for you to shoot over the patches to me as they are.
> >>I'll see what they do for me :).
> >
> >
> > You asked for it.  Here are 5 patches against cygwin 1.5.5-1:
> >
>
> Here's my current state. remaining TODO:
>
> 0) Fill out the last couple of thunks. FindFirstFile and FindNextFile
> need to be always Ansi or always Wide, and if following that principle
> there, it probably makes sense to always use one or the other, not
> decide on a per-call basis.
> 1) update [f] pathconf (see the weekends archives of
> address@hidden and address@hidden for details of what is
> needed.
> 1a) Update CYG_MAX_PATH to (say) 270. Check for issues with the change
> occuring, and rectify.
> 2) check the exact assembly generated when CYG_MAX_PATH is 4K, and see
> what causes non virtual method calls within cygwin to go awry: I think
> it's a g++ problem with alloca trashing eax, but I haven't done the
> analysis yet. If possible generate a test case for g++ (mine passes so
> far :[) and check against gcc 3.3.x. Rumour has this issue as a already
> fixed there bug in g++.
> 3) do the PATH_MAX alterations as discussed on the cygwin list - pick a
> direction an follow it.
>
> 4) test, test and test.
>
> Oh, and rebuild file-utils and tar with the new .dll, as a starting point.
>
> IOW, we're past the hard point.
>
> Rob
>
>