Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:08:02 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: help: Glib under Cygwin Message-ID: <20010416220802.A24235@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <5 DOT 0 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 20010416214552 DOT 009f4ec0 AT mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010416214552.009f4ec0@mail>; from superbiskit@home.com on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:50:17PM -0400 On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:50:17PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: >At Friday 10:31 AM 4/6/01, Glen Coakley wrote: > >>What version are you trying to compile? When I attempt to 'configure' glibc >>2.2.2 I get the follow message: >> >> >>$ configure >>loading cache ./config.cache >>checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin >>*** The GNU C library is currently not available for this platform. >>*** So far nobody cared to port it and if there is no volunteer it >>*** might never happen. So, if you have interest to see glibc on >>*** this platform visit >>*** http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/porting.html >>*** and join the group of porters > >Well, that's nice. I had the chutzpah to suggest I would like to take a look >at that. And one Ulrich Drepper of Redhat went positively ballistic. I won't >quote his reply but it was entirely unfriendly. Obviously Redhat is a diverse >organization with many divergent interests. > >I have enough problems without needing to swim against that sort of current. Um, yeah, Ulrich is not a Windows lover, to put it mildly. He's hardly alone at Red Hat, though. I wasn't around during Cygwin's inception but I believe that Cygwin actually exists because Ulrich was adamant about not porting glibc to Windows. However, aren't we talking about 'glib' not 'glibc'? cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple