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On Fri 31 May 2019, 23:11 John Cowan, <co...@ccil.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 5:19 PM James Youngman <ja...@youngman.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> That has not been the case for some time, at least not on NTFS.  Cygwin
> has no trouble renaming or even deleting open files.
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> 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)
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks,
>> James.
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