On Thu, 23 May 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
> Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > This issue is now fixed in cygwin dll [snapshot].
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00342.html
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00348.html
>
> Does this mean we shouldn't bother with a work-around, or we should have
> configure test whether the bug exists and work around it only when
> necessary?
I guess we could workarround only when necessary. [We'll have to
change the check to be on cygwin version - but a new fixed version is
not yet released]
Configure currently has some conditional code on cygwin version. With
gnumake - we could perhaps add similar check directly in the makefile :)
Satish
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def chkbrokencygwin():
if os.path.exists('/usr/bin/cygcheck.exe'):
buf = os.popen('/usr/bin/cygcheck.exe -c cygwin').read()
if buf.find('1.5.11-1') > -1:
print
'==============================================================================='
print ' *** cygwin-1.5.11-1 detected. ./configure fails with this version
***'
print ' *** Please upgrade to cygwin-1.5.12-1 or newer version. This can
***'
print ' *** be done by running cygwin-setup, selecting "next" all the
way.***'
print
'==============================================================================='
sys.exit(3)
return 0
Satish
