Re: [Lzip-bug] Re: Version 1.11-rc2 of lzip released

[Elbert Pol]

 Hi,

I got from a other porter this answer:

Your also going to have to include io.h to pull in the setmode(), then 
the tests pass.

The makefiles, configure and check.sh also need exeext added to properly 
support OS/2 and Windows.

Anything usefull ?


Dave
On  2-08-10 02:20, JonY wrote:
> On 8/1/2010 23:02, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> > JonY wrote:
> > > According to <http://www.lesstif.org/~amai/os2/html/porting.html>,
> > > setmode looks to be available on OS/2.
> > >
> > > Can we agree to use setmode?
> >
> > I have found that minigzip.c[1] from zlib uses this for Cygwin and OS/2:
> > setmode(fileno(file), O_BINARY)
> >
> > [1]http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/misc/zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz:a/zlib-1.2.5/minigzip.c 
> >
> >
> > (see line 38).
> >
> > So I plan to include the following near the beginning of main():
> > #if defined(OS2) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
> > setmode( STDIN_FILENO, O_BINARY );
> > setmode( STDOUT_FILENO, O_BINARY );
> > #endif
> >
> > Elbert, JonY, can you check if this works both on Cygwin and OS/2? 
> > Thanks.
>
> Hi,
>
> This only applies to the older Cygwin 1.5, I think. Cygwin 1.7 now 
> uses binary IO only, text mode was dropped.
>
> Anyway, Cygwin versions builds and passes the test without any 
> changes. I tested with lzip-1.11-rc3-20100729.
>
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