On Wed 08 Jan 2003 05:56, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm sorry. I thought the cygwin project -- was to provide a Posix type > >platform to [aid, assist, help] in porting *nix/gnu utils to the Win32 > >environment. > > Cygwin's primary purpose is to provide a UNIX environment for Windows. > Although it can be used in other ways, the basic purpose is not to > provide a stepping stone to helping port programs to native Windows. > Things like Win32 path names and accommodating pure-win32 processes are > *always* of secondary importance wrt getting the UNIX bits right.
Sorry to drop in like this, but how much influence do you have in Cygwin? How much are you aware that 1.3.18-1 does fail in the current smokes where 1.3.16 passed? Gerrit seems to be quite busy these days. Automated smoke report for patch 18456 cc gcc | HP-UX 11.00 B.11.11.06 3.3 32-bit O = OK | 3.3 64-bit +GNUld F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom | HP-UX 10.20 A.10.32.30 3.2 ? = still running or test results not (yet) available | AIX 4.3.3.0 vac 5.0.2.6 3.1.1 Build failures during: - = unknown, = skipped | AIX 4.2.1.0 xlc 3.1.4.10 3.1.1 c = Configure, m = make, t = make test-prep | Cygwin 1.3.18 3.2-3 HP-UX HP-UX HP-UX HP-UX AIX AIX cygwin 11.00 11.00 10.20 10.20 4.3.3 4.3.3 1.3.18-1 HPc gcc HPc gcc vac gcc gcc 18456 18456 18456 18456 18456 18453 18456 Configuration ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O F F F F O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O F F F F -Duse64bitint O O O O O O O O . . . . -Duse64bitall O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O ? ? O O O O F F F F -Duselongdouble O O O O O O O O ? ? ? ? F F F F -Dusemorebits O O O O O O O O ? ? ? ? . . . . -Duse64bitall -Duselongdouble | | | | | +----- PERLIO = perlio | +- PERLIO = perlio -DDEBUGGING +------- PERLIO = stdio +--- PERLIO = stdio -DDEBUGGING Failures: Cygwin 1.3 stdio Cygwin 1.3 stdio/perlio -DDEBUGGING Cygwin 1.3 perlio -Duse64bitint Cygwin 1.3 stdio/perlio -Duselongdouble Cygwin 1.3 stdio -Dusemorebits lib/IPC/Open3 ....................... 22 lib/Test/Harness/t/strap-analyze .... 2 lib/warnings ........................ 413-415 t/op/alarm .......................... 1-4 Cygwin 1.3 perlio Cygwin 1.3 perlio -Dusemorebits Cygwin 1.3 stdio/perlio -DDEBUGGING -Dusemorebits lib/IPC/Open3 ....................... 22 lib/Test/Harness/t/strap-analyze .... 2 lib/warnings ........................ 413-415 What's the stance of cygwin in threading? -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 633 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11. Smoking perl CORE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/