binutils testsuite failures? (was: Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19)

2006-01-27 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:28:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I should point out that I didn't rebuild my packages under 1.5.19 either > so I'm just as guilty as any other package maintainer in this regard. Speaking of which, in the course of making a small patch to ld (which I hope the bi

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-25 Thread Eric Blake
> > Linux has an equivalent getline() call. Apache (presumably, I haven't > checked) builds on Linux. Thus, either Cygwin's getline declaration is > somehow different from Linux's (in which case it should be fixed in > Cygwin), or Apache is doing something different in Cygwin than in Linux > (in

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-25 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, pobox wrote: > > I like this slogan: "Cygwin: nice, but not reliable". We should adopt > > this, and refer 90% of the mailing list complaints to it. :-) > > Igor > > I am not really sure how to understand the joke. Only that Cygwin cannot be expected to be fully tested

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I like this slogan: "Cygwin: nice, but not reliable". We should adopt this, and refer 90% of the mailing list complaints to it. :-) Igor I am not really sure how to understand the joke. cygwin worked flawlessly for me for very long time. May be I have been lucky, but this made me dev

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:28:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:46:31PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >>The only care that really could be taken to prevent things like this > >>is more users testing pre-re

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:28:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:46:31PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >>The only care that really could be taken to prevent things like this >>is more users testing pre-release versions. Development snapshots of >>cygwin with

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:46:31PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >The only care that really could be taken to prevent things like this >is more users testing pre-release versions. Development snapshots of >cygwin with getline() have been available for a long time now. Note >that this isn'

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:43:30PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used cygwin happily for very long time to compile > apache/php/postgresql and enjoy symlinks, and now I am cut-off from one > day to the next. The apache folks do not seem to care. The bug I > submitted is still without reply

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Dessent
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > I do not want to heat the discussion, but getline() in cygwin played > very hard against me. Like I said in the other thread, you can fix this in Apache (and cdrtools for that matter -- see attached patch) with a couple of #defines in the offending files. It's really

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, pobox wrote: > > This falls into the same category as my previous discussion about > > _POSIX_SOURCE. If a program builds without problem on linux, the goal > > is for it to build without problem on cygwin. It seems like the > > unconditional addition of getline to the heade

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This falls into the same category as my previous discussion about _POSIX_SOURCE. If a program builds without problem on linux, the goal is for it to build without problem on cygwin. It seems like the unconditional addition of getline to the headers moves us a step back from that goal. Is this

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:25:13PM +, Eric Blake wrote: >somebody wrote: >>I don't know if cygwin's interface can easily be changed, but >>considering that J?rg doesn't seem to be willing to modify his code, >>what do you think that could be done to solve this problem? I hope >>that a solution

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Eric Blake
> > This is what he answered: Joerg is known to be stubborn. You should try reading all his comments on the bug-tar list, where he claims that his implementation star is hands-down superior to GNU tar. Just take it with a grain of salt. > > Try to convince cygwin to remove their non-confo

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 24 18:46, Simone Crestani wrote: > Hi, > I found out that cygwin 1.5.19 gives some problems when I try to compile > cdrtools and cdrdao. > [...] >Try to convince cygwin to remove their non-conforming interface >definition. > >The getline() iterface I use goes back to 1982 and h