On 06/08/2017 03:50 AM, Soegtrop, Michael wrote: > 1.) I build many (~ 50) unix libs and tools MinGW cross on cygwin from > sources and this breaks many of the configure and other scripts. Feeding back > the fixes to the individual lib/tool maintainers will take quite some time > and also results in lengthy discussion why they should care about crappy DOS > artefacts at all. A compatibility option via environment variable would have > been nice.
At one point in the distant past, we DID have an environment variable ($CYGWIN) which included an option to force all pipelines to behave as text-mount rather than binary-mount. I don't remember why it was ripped out. It may be worth a patch to cygwin1.dll to re-add some way to enable text-mount pipelines - or maybe even limited-context text-mount pipelines (if Cygwin already has an easy way to decide whether the sending end of a pipeline is a cygwin or native windows process, then the conditional decision would be that input from the pipeline is in text mode if the sender is non-cygwin; while output to a pipeline is always binary). But I'm not in a position to write such a pach. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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