Re: ITP: netpbm

2002-04-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as I described in the other message, there are only three patches. Ok, I must have looked over it. One, which creates a Makefile.config, Two, a cygwin-specific README file. Three, GNU shtool, to create a shadow tree in which to build.

ITP: setup.

2002-04-28 Thread Robert Collins
With the ability to generate -src snapshots, I can now make setup.exe -src tarballs easily. I'd like to package up a -src only package with the current released setup sources in 'curr', and (possibly) any new versions in 'test'. For now I don't intend to offer binary packages, because setup

problems with bitkeeper installer

2002-04-28 Thread Lapo Luchini
Tie ago I tried bitkeeper... it's installer is very neat and works very well and uses cygwin in the right way... only it has a problem I've already reported in their bug management ssytem (it thinks cygwin it's installed in c:\cygwin\ also if I skipped installing it as I already had it in a

RE: problems with bitkeeper installer

2002-04-28 Thread Robert Collins
To detect cygwin's location, you should link against cygwin, and use pathconv to get the location of /. Rob

RE: ordinal linking for cygwin ld

2002-04-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
Ok, I see what it does. Doesn't it have to do that for each reference to the auto-imported variable? For each auto-imported variable an IMAGE_IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR and an IMPORT_THUNK_DATA element is necessary. If so, then heavy use of an imported variable could make the INT and IAT quite large

Re: libgetopt++ and setup and libstdc++

2002-04-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: (thank the three men I admire most, the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost!). Hah! An American Pie reference! Bye, bye Miss American Pie, Drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry... --Chuck

RE: libgetopt++ and setup and libstdc++

2002-04-28 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:39 AM It is more usual for projects to store the configure scripts, however. It is also more usual not to change the convention once it has been set. And I have _not_ changed