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From: Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com>
Reply-To: "kern AT sibbald DOT com" <kern AT sibbald DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Some comments about the current release
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:47:05 +0200
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Hello,

In loading the current Cygwin software (dll 1.3.1
and others), in addition to the cygwin1.dll performance
degradation, while loading the latest version of all
the other files, I ran into the following problems:

1. libm.a is missing.  I copied it from my 1.1.5 release.
If it is no longer necessary, it would be a big 
convenience if you would provide a null version so
that we don't have to modify all our Makefiles.
By the way, I don't know where my original libm.a 
came from as it doesn't seem to be in the 1.1.5 release
either.

2. gzip.exe was missing in gzip-1.3-1.  This was 
especially painful as without it tar does not 
work.  I copied it from my 1.1.5 release. I imagine
that it is normally a link to gunzip.exe, but just
the same it caused me problems.  The gzip.tar.gz
that I picked up with Cygwin 1.1.5 did contain gzip.exe.

3. Thanks for adding pthreads support. It works!  However,
it would be really nice if you provided a null 
libpthreads.a library so that we don't have to modify all
our Makefiles.

4. I was including <winsock2.h> in a bunch of header files
in my .cpp programs which are strictly Windows (no Unix
stuff) and I got lots of warning messages, which were 
annoying. In my case, I solved the problem by removing
the include of <winsock2.h> as it wasn't really needed,
but it seems to me that there is a problem here that
needs some attention.

Best regards,

Kern Sibbald


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