Re: libc project ports

2011-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:31:55AM +, Greg Chicares wrote: >On 2011-09-20 10:51Z, toto titi wrote: >> >> I sent a few years ago a question to the libc project ports mailing >> list (http://cygwin.com/ml/libc-ports/) without knowing this email >> would be stored and made available to everyone o

Re: libc project ports

2011-09-20 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2011-09-20 10:51Z, toto titi wrote: > > I sent a few years ago a question to the libc project ports mailing > list (http://cygwin.com/ml/libc-ports/) without knowing this email > would be stored and made available to everyone on the internet. My > name and main email address clearly appears in

Re: libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread René Berber
Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/01/2010 04:31 PM, René Berber wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> [snip] >>> I'll drop the info dir entirely for the next release. >> >> Please don't do that, there is useful information there from many >> packages that explicitly put a short version on the man page, a

Re: libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/01/2010 04:31 PM, René Berber wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] I'll drop the info dir entirely for the next release. Please don't do that, there is useful information there from many packages that explicitly put a short version on the man page, and the full documentation in the inf

Re: libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread René Berber
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] > I'll drop the info dir entirely for the next release. Please don't do that, there is useful information there from many packages that explicitly put a short version on the man page, and the full documentation in the info file(s), for instance read the last page of

Re: libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 1 16:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:33:02PM +0100, Andy Moreton wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I've noticed that the info files for libc and libm get installed twice: > > > >~> cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libm.info > >cygwin-1.7.7-1 > >~> cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libm.i

Re: libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:33:02PM +0100, Andy Moreton wrote: >Hi, > >I've noticed that the info files for libc and libm get installed twice: > >~> cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libm.info >cygwin-1.7.7-1 >~> cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libm.info.gz >cygwin-doc-1.7-1 > >~> cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/

Re: libc header questions

2005-09-19 Thread Hiroki Sakagami
On 9/17/05, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 17 15:08, Hiroki Sakagami wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two questions about libc include headers. > > > > 1. Is there any reason socklen_t is defined as a macro > > instead of typedef in ? > > Is this a problem for you? The r

Re: libc header questions

2005-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 15:08, Hiroki Sakagami wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions about libc include headers. > > 1. Is there any reason socklen_t is defined as a macro > instead of typedef in ? Is this a problem for you? The reasons are plain historical. I don't see that converting it to a typede

RE: libc

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Richard Campbell > Sent: 19 April 2004 15:12 > >Libc has as a standard catgets. But catgets and catopen are > absent from the > >cygwin implementation and gencat and nl_types are not to be found. > > > >So where can I find either the

RE: libc

2004-04-19 Thread Richard Campbell
>Libc has as a standard catgets. But catgets and catopen are absent from the >cygwin implementation and gencat and nl_types are not to be found. > >So where can I find either the source for these or a technical spec? Switched to the main cygwin list. Cygwin uses newlib. http://sources.redhat.co