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From: | "pjfarley3" <pjfarley3 AT yahoo DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Is anyone working on porting these utilities? |
Date: | 22 Jul 2005 11:35:09 -0700 |
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Hi Andrew, No, it's not commercial, but another open-source project. Some of the workers complained about the bulk of Cygwin, so I researched DJGPP to see if the two could cooperate, but alas it did not work very well. It is possible that setting appropriate paths (LDLIBRARYPATH, LIBPATH, etc.) to point to the Cygwin directories would make it work, but it did not seem like it was worth the effort. Among other things, DJGPP bash (at least the stable version, and possibly the beta version, don't remember for sure now) does not seem to support the "-u" commandline option, nor does the bash "read" command. These are used all over the place in the application bash scripts, and the amount of if-then-else-fi logic that would be needed just seemed to be too much. Since the root of the project depends on Cygwin in the Windows environment anyway, the judgement has been to just stick with that for now. Thanks anyway for the advice. Peter
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