On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:15:46PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hello Ralf, > > >> Libutil.a is deprecated and will not be part of future inetutils > >> releases anymore. > > > Only for cygwin or for the whole unix/linux world ? > > > > It seems that some linux based packages (as far as I know kde releated > > package) are using libutil as default, which requires additional patching. > > For this it would help, building a special import library containing the > > libutil relating symbols pointing to the cygwin dll like done with > > libpthread. > > Isn't there a confiure check which tests if the symbols in question are > available in the C library and if not whether libutil is available and > if so use this? This is the usual autotool way, e.g for iconv() (IIRC). > Isn't it possible to push these kind of changes upstream (if changes are > needed to configure)?
I agree. Even our very ancient inetutils package checks the needed functions in case there's no libutil.a (see its configure.in). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
