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

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

JonY wrote:
> This only applies to the older Cygwin 1.5, I think. Cygwin 1.7 now uses binary 
> IO only, text mode was dropped.

Great! Another step towards the disappearance of text mode.


> Anyway, Cygwin versions builds and passes the test without any changes. I 
> tested with lzip-1.11-rc3-20100729.

Thanks. So this means lzip only need to be modified for native Windows mode?


Elbert Pol wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. Those are too many changes just to work around bugs and 
shortcomings of two proprietary, non-posix OSs.

As my commitment is to provide high quality software for free posix 
systems, I hope you both will be so kind to patch lzip for your 
respective systems until those systems implement posix compatibility.


Best regards,
Antonio.