On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:48:40 -0400 (EDT) "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Bill Priest wrote: > > > CGF, > > I tracked down a syntax error I was seeing in antiword to be a problem > > w/ sscanf. I did search on the newlib site and found the following > > email > > > > [pechtcha: Bug in scanf &Co (Was Re: Error message from antiword since > > upgrade to cygwin 1.5.10)] > > > > I'm not subscribed to the newlib mailing list. > > If you searched the newlib archives, you should have seen the reply to > this saying that a patch was committed. The email subject I referenced contained the patch to newlib; I just didn't know when it would get included in a snapshot. > > > Is this fixed in a snapshot and/or do you expect it to be fixed in a > > subsequent release? > > AFAIK, Cygwin uses the newlib CVS HEAD, so the snapshot should have the > fix. FWIW, it works for me with a fresh Cygwin CVS build. This is what I wanted to understand; whether the newest "newlib" was usually used in the latest cygwin snapshot. I couldn't recall seeing this on the cygwin mailing list. For the record the latest snapshot has it fixed. > > BTW I tried downloading the source for cygwin-1.5.10-3 and > > cygwin-1.5.9-1 showed up in /usr/src using ftp://mirrors.rcn.net and > > ftp://sunsite.utk.edu I'm a "digester" so I checked the web archive for comments on the source being behind a version. Anybody know what is going on here? Bill PS. Thanks Igor for info on the "cygwin" build process. -- 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/
