Re: Cygwin 1.7 wide char functions

2009-07-14 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > Cygwin 1.7 added wcwidth, and it does pass the test-wcwidth.c unit test. So > we > may want to consider modifying this patch to also exempt cygwin from the > expensive tests. This would make sense if the multibyte / wide char support in Cygwin was final. But as you say, the

Re: [PATCH] improve locale handling in m4/wcwidth.m4

2009-07-14 Thread Eric Blake
Bruno Haible clisp.org> writes: > Your suggestion would lead to a correct autoconf test as well. But we try > to make configure tests fast - run as few programs as possible, skip > unnecessary tests. There's no big point in making the MacOS X test work > in a 100% robust way on Cygwin and Solaris

Re: [PATCH] improve locale handling in m4/wcwidth.m4

2009-07-14 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello, kc wrote: > However, I was cross-compiling gettext-0.17 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu for > i686-pc-linux-gnu. gettext did not compile because it did not use the > system wchar.h, but some other variant provided with the gettext's source > tarball. The cause was that gettext's configure was

Re: [PATCH] improve locale handling in m4/wcwidth.m4

2009-07-14 Thread kc . REMOVE . SPAM
Dear Bruno, On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:46:29 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: the attached patch solves two problems with the current version of m4/wcwidth.m4 (serial 14). However, those two problems are so closely related that I chose to attack them in one patch. On which platform did you encounter a

fpurge now available in cygwin

2009-07-14 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cygwin 1.7 now provides fpurge, and it passes test-fpurge.c without the use of a wrapper function. Therefore, I think that it avoids the BSD bug reported here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-04/msg00277.html That means that blindly