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: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:24:49 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: "J. Johnston" Cc: newlib AT sources DOT redhat DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, wuebbel AT math DOT uni-muenster DOT de Subject: Re: 1.3.2: signgam problem still present in plotutils, gnuplot etc. Message-ID: <20010613182449.A11916@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: "J. Johnston" , newlib AT sources DOT redhat DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, wuebbel AT math DOT uni-muenster DOT de References: <000201c0f363$01992720$0100a8c0 AT duron> <20010612143708 DOT A413 AT redhat DOT com> <002301c0f376$e165a780$0100a8c0 AT duron> <20010612195312 DOT B2062 AT redhat DOT com> <3B27D692 DOT AFA9BE8E AT cygnus DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3B27D692.AFA9BE8E@cygnus.com>; from jjohnstn@cygnus.com on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:09:38PM -0400 On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:09:38PM -0400, J. Johnston wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:35:38PM +0200, Frank Wuebbeling wrote: >>>>Hmm. I don't recall anyone submitting a patch for this. >>> >>>The mailing on the CYGWIN list I referred to had a patch, to which >>>several people agreed it worked. It almost also did the job for >>>plotutils, meaning it revealed a problem in plotutils, removing that >>>one made it work (the problem was that plotutils assumes that signgam >>>is a variable, and redeclares it - which fails if it is not and is >>>obsolete anyway since math.h is responsible for declaring it). >>> >>>Again, the page was >>>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg01837.html. I quote the >>>main idea. I have no idea whatsoever what the change really does, so I >>>don't want to submit a patch - I just propose reconsidering the old >>>posting which had one. I incorporated the fix in math.h. Here's the >>>original posting: >> >>Ok. That's not a patch. I have no idea where this definition would >>go. I'm sure that I could probably track it down but, if it is >>important to you, you should start a thread on the newlib mailing list, >>asking for the change since this is apparently a newlib construction. >> >>I've cc'ed newlib and redirected the discussion there. > >Newlib changed math.h in January to have an errno-like solution for >signgam whereby a function gets called. Is math.h up to date in the >user's Cygwin and is it being included by the source code in question? >See: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib-cvs/2001-q1/msg00013.html for >details on the patch applied in January. We're certainly using the most recent versions of newlib in the cygwin releases. I can't speak to the user's specific problem, however. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple