On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 5:19 PM James Youngman <ja...@youngman.org> wrote:
> It's a long time since I have had access to a system capable of > running Cygwin, and it looks to me as if the code now in the Git > repository for CSSC will no longer compile under Cygwin. > > The Cygwin code needs to be different because, among other things, > under Cygwin one cannot rename an open file, so there would need to be > differences in CSSC's control flow on that platform. > That has not been the case for some time, at least not on NTFS. Cygwin has no trouble renaming or even deleting open files. However, when I got the git repo, I ran automake and autoconf in turn, but then blew up on ./configure, which said "configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in build-aux "."/build-aux" (which is true) > > If anybody uses CSSC on Cygwin and would like to help keep it working > on Cygwin, please step forward. Otherwise I think we'll have to > discontinue support for Cygwin. > > Thanks, > James. > >
