From: fabio AT joplin DOT colorado DOT edu (Fabio Somenzi) Subject: Re: getting Perl5 to compile under gnu-win32 3 Nov 1996 14:06:17 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199611032125.OAA01282.cygnus.gnu-win32@joplin.colorado.edu> Original-To: thomas DOT francis DOT jr AT pobox DOT com Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ->> I just found a similar problem with a package that has both Makefile and ->> makefile. gnu-win32 tar concatenates the two files. ->> As for bash, I found that if I did ->> cp Makefile makefile ->> I would only get makefile and that file would be empty. As in the case of ->> Perl's Configure, this was not a blocking problem (I still had my tar file), ->> but, in my ignorance, I don't understand why this happens. ->Getting a separate Makefile and makefile is either in the FAQ or the ->release notes. It's in the FAQ. Thanks for pointing it out. Still, I think the cp problem is somewhat distinct. If I do "cp a.file a.file" I get the message: cp: `a.file' and `a.file' are the same file. Hence, a.file and A.file are different for cp, but are the same for Windows. I guess converting both filenames to uppercase before checking if they are the same would not hurt. On a different subject. Has anyone had problems with setbuf? I have a program that calls setbuf(stdin,NULL) and setbuf(stdout,NULL) to make a (b)yacc/bison parser work over a pipe. It works well under Linux, Solaris, and SunOS, regardless of whether the input comes from the terminal or the pipe. Under Win95, all goes well if I don't call setbuf, but then I can't use the pipe. Finally, in my posting o yesterday, I mentioned generic "floating point problems" in one program I compiled. I can now add the problem is with atan2. I believe this is a known problem. Fabio -- Fabio Somenzi | Phone: 303-492-3466 University of Colorado | Fax: 303-492-2758 ECE Dept. | Email: Fabio AT Colorado DOT EDU Boulder CO 80309-0425 | WWW: http://vlsi.colorado.edu/~fabio - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".