> * From: Doug Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 20:41:42 -0700 (PDT) > >On Mon, 1 May 2000, Klaus Weide wrote: > >> But these choices shouldn't be hardwired into the source code in such >> a way that it gets near-impossible to disentagle them, for someone who >> looks at the source code (and perhaps doesn't even know what DJGPP or >> CYGWIN is). >> ... >> I mean, "don't use cp in a cygwin environment" is a preference, a choice >> you made, not something that is required to run in a cygwin environment. >> You think it's more appropriate as a default, and I have no problem with >> that (but some questions, see below). > >Point taken. > >> > Indeed, the SH_EX changes are Senshu Hiroyuki's preferences, which >> > have not yet been accepted for general use. >> >> As well as WIN_EX? > >I thought that the difference between SH_EX and WIN_EX was that the >latter was thought to be generally acceptable code for use in Windows >platforms. I must admit that I wasn't paying that much attention, >since I wasn't using cygwin at the time this was discussed. I am >not sure who accepted the WIN_EX code. Was it Hiroyuki who made the >original decisions? I, at least, was hampered by the documentation in >Japanese, and have trouble reading through the code to decide what it >does and why. > >> Anyway, I'd say don't be afraid to add a new preprocessor symbol >> where it makes sense. They don't all need to be exposed in userdefs.h >> or in the makefile(s). For example, for the "use cp or not" question, >> something like >> ... >> would be better than the current situation. That #define could be just > >> > Since most Windows users wouldn't have cp, this saves the need to >> > distribute a compatible cp with the lynx binary. >> Look, you clowns, the whole idea of Cygwin was that you could use the ./configure script, just like any other Unix. And that, to programs running under cygwin.dll, the Dos/Windows file systems look exactly like Unix, rm, cp, and all. That means there should be _no_ need at all for specific Cygwin defines. Actually, if someone would please do a native Windows implementation of ash.exe or bash.exe, it would be possible to run ./configure directly under Windows for MingW32, and by extension, all the vanilla Windows compilers. be little or no need ; ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; with "unsubscribe lynx-dev" (without the ; quotation marks) on a line by itself. ;
