Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/09/30/13:56:40
> Unfortunately there seems to be some confusion over
> what a "native" file mode is, personally I think that
> worrying what the "native" file mode is in an emulation
> dll is kind of backwards, an emulation dll is there to
> create a non "native" environment in the first place
> so having cygwin32 open files in TEXT mode by default
> just because 95/NT do is rather silly ;^)
> AND breaks many otherwise working posix programs ;^(
Agreed. -b should be default. any file under / to me is under posix
control vs. any //drive/ (or thankfully drive:/) is under MS control and needs
to be treated as text!=binary (unless mounted).
> Unfortunately if you work that way, when you
> send the software to your customers/buddys
> and they install it, it sets up the default text!=binary
> mount table, and you get calls wondering why
> things don't work ;^(
I've repackaged the cygnus cdk/usertools into a local cygwin.exe install
file. It builds a standard(?!) unix directory tree (/bin, /lib, /usr,...) and
loads everything into the right spot. It then directly hammers the registry
with all the correct mounts, adds $HOME, $GCC_EXEC_PREFIX and finally adds all
to the $PATH MS style paths to the bins and libs.
Its the only way i could guarantee a predictable environment.
Tibor
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