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On 3/24/2020 4:09 AM, Mark Geisert wrote:
> Eliot Moss wrote:
>> Well, I had _thought_ I had done 'cygport install' and run the installed
>> version, but I seem to have been wrong.  I seem to have manually over-written
>> the proper (stripped) binary with the wrapper!
>>
>> Anyway, I've got the whole thing working and offer the attached patches for
>> "thoughtful consideration".  I have done away with the need to create an empty
>> or fake /usr/local/include/sys/syscall.h and changed the source of the
>> relevant programs to conditional #include <sys/syscall.h> on #indef
>> __CYGWIN__, which sruck me as more legitimate (the file in questions is
>> patched anyway).  And I improved configure.ac so that the programs controlled
>> by --enable-schedutils are more independent and can fail individually without
>> failing the build.  Part of that was subtituting, as a patch to configure.ac,
>> a check for the sched_getaffinity and sched_setaffinity calls in place of the
>> check for the corresponding syscall.  The whole builds and installs.  I can
>> provide the packaged up version (I assume that is the 'dist' hierarchy) if
>> that would be helpful.
> 
> Thanks very much for working on all this and contributing it.  I will build and test as soon as I 
> can.  I need to research the packaging steps because I intend to ITA this package.  I do also want 
> to take another look at the other programs built as part of --enable-schedutils; they might (or 
> might not) build cleanly but AFAIK there's no support within Cygwin and/or Windows for what they can 
> do on Linux.

Agreed - glad to help!   Eliot
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