On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:19:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:00:37PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > > From: Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > vinschen> - Makefile.org contains some changes to allow creating DLLs > > vinschen> under Cygwin. The main change is adding a new target > > vinschen> `do_cygwin-shared' which creates the cygcrypto.dll and cygssl.dll > > vinschen> files as well as the corresponding link libraries libcrypto.dll.a > > vinschen> and libssl.dll.a. > > > > Why the "cyg" prefix? > > All Cygwin shared libs have a `cyg' instead of a `lib' prefix. > The reason is that in contrast to other operating systems you > have multiple concurrent implementations of the same stuff, > native, U/Win, Cygwin, Interix, etc. For that reason there > was a community consensus to use another prefix to lower the > chance to collide with one of the other implementations. > > > Also, since you're based in the US, you need to resend that patch with > > a cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Oh, I'm not based in the US. I'm in Germany and I'm not doing > that as a Red Hat employee. The contribution of packages to > the Cygwin net distribution is pure voluntary. > > Corinna
Hello, I don't want to be pushy but I'd like to know if I have to do something to get approval for that patch. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Developer Red Hat, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
