> The current cygwin stuff is reporting "1.1.0(0.17/3/2)" for uname
> -r. This caused all sorts of problems when trying to build using
> the abi source available in zip format. src/config/abi_defs.mk
> assigns OS_RELEASE, feeding the results of uname -r through
> several sed filters to remove badness. If I'm reading it
> correctly, the current filters only replace the first "/" and
> neither "(" or ")". After a bit of banging on sed to no avail, I
> just changed the line to "OS_RELEASE = WIN32" and I was able
> to get building.
The 'old' cygwin is reporting this:
uname -r
21.0 (0.8/1/1)
so, perhaps you (someone) can add a search for the '('. I suspect the current sed is
looking only for the space ' '.
Anyhow the resulting directory is 'WIN32_21.0_i386_DBG' or 'WIN32_21.0_i386_OBJ'.
--hb
