rpcgen is a tool that generates C code to implement an RPC protocol. The input to rpcgen is a language similar to C known as RPC Language (Remote Procedure Call Language). This package replaces a component of the (soon-to-be-obsolete) sunrpc package; you should update sunrpc to the 4.0-4 version if you have it installed.
This implementation of rpcgen is derived from the eglibc SVN. Note that rpcgen requires /usr/bin/cpp -- but that program, the C PreProcessor, may be supplied by either the gcc-core or the gcc4-core package. Given this ambiguity, neither package is explicitly required, and neither will be automatically installed. It is up to the user to ensure that some version of gcc is installed, if rpcgen is to operate correctly. Also, note that due to a packaging error, 'rpcgen --version' will report 'rpcgen (cygwin-special) 2.12.90' -- even though this release claims to be version 2.11.90_20100818. This discrepancy will be corrected in a future release. -- Charles Wilson volunteer rpcgen maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
