X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:13:15 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: printf: %ls or %S does not work when string is of length 1. Message-ID: <20080828131315.GX29104@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20080827142758.GA14761@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080828124131.GA3476@tishler.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080828124131.GA3476@tishler.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Aug 28 08:41, Jason Tishler wrote: > Corinna, > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:27:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Thanks for the testcase. This looks like a bug in the newlib function > > _wcsrtombs_r. I'll send a bug report and a proposed fix upstream. > > This will be fixed in Cygwin 1.7. > > If you are going to release another Cygwin 1.5, would you be willing to > back port this fix? Otherwise, Python 3.0 will not be able to run under > Cygwin 1.5. Actually I didn't plan to release another 1.5. There will always be some bug which could be fixed, but at some point before a new major release you simply have to draw a line. What about just adding a Cygwin specific workaround in the 1.5 based Python 3.0 release? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/