Eric Blake wrote: > > NEED_SIGNED_INT_TYPES is only needed for Cygwin (so far). Let's correct > > this when we stumble acess a system that has the same problem and uses > > the MSVC compiler. > > Which cygwin bug is this? Let's get it fixed in cygwin, rather than > having to work around it.
The NEED_SIGNED_INT_TYPES is needed because at some versions of cygwin have/had no <stdint.h> but defined half of the types in <sys/types.h>. > And if the bug was in an earlier version > of cygwin, I think gnulib can safely ignore that; there are a number of > bugs in older cygwin versions that are simply not worth working around. I try to support at least older versions up to ca. 3 years old, so that I don't get too many failure reports from people who installed their system 2 or 3 years ago. "3 years" is related to the average lifetime of a PC. Bruno _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
