Hi cgf, > You must be referring to newlib if you are talking about Makefile.am. > newlib has its own mailing list newlib at sourceware PERIOD org . > You'll need to talk to the maintainer of newlib if you are adding a new > function there.
I have contacted the newlib maintainer about the patch, thanks for the contact point. I have some legal issues with the licensing to work with cygwin but once its done, will I have to offer a patch to cygwin.din file or someone from cygwin will take care of it? > > >4-My generated libcygwin.a is 3.6MB vs 953KB for the one distributed with > >the cygwin binaries. Obviously, I did not build the same thing. Does > someone > >have an idea about what would explain that difference? > > The standard answer: debugging symbols. It makes sense. How do I generate the lib without the debug symbols then? Thank you very much for the explanations cgf! Greetings, Olivier Langlois -- 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/