Re: Suggestion: improve cross-compiling ability

2013-07-08 Thread Greg Turner
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: > Hello! I have got one small idea on how to improve compatibility with > cross-compiling Linux software. This time it's glibc. > > At certain point glibc's rpcgen program (which is being compiled for host), > relies on '#ifndef __u_char_defined

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-13 Thread Greg Turner
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Matt D. wrote: > "the Windows console window you get through cygstart is not [a pty]" Ah, so /that's/ what I recently read uncomprehendingly! Thanks for tracking down this concise explanation. Assuming that's right, then, I wonder: what is it? -gmt -- Problem

Re: cygwin64 process substitution: known bug?

2013-04-07 Thread Greg Turner
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Gregory M. Turner wrote: > On my cygwin64, all bash process substitutions fail: Sorry for double-posting :S -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html U

Re: BUG: FIFO (named pipe) is broken on Cygwin

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Turner
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Zach Saw wrote: > > According to POSIX, FIFO allows multiple readers / writers. However, it > appears > that Cygwin's implementation only allows for multiple readers and single > writer. That's a known issue -- ostensibly, one not aggressively being worked on by a