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Date:	Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:56:35 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: GNU C Library and cygwin
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:53:10AM -0600, Gerald Howse wrote:
>Got your eMail from the cygwin site.
>
>Just cygwin installed OK and was configuring so I can
>run OCaml on my win98box.  OCaml wouldn't compile so started
>installing GTK libs that ./configure was asking for and found
>that the GNU C Library is not ported to cygwin.  
>
>Any chance that GNU C Library might get ported to cygwin?

I think you're a little confused about cygwin.  Cygwin provides the
equivalent of a C library for Windows.  Porting glibc *to* cygwin would
be redundant.

Anyway, there are no plans on doing anything with glibc.

cgf
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