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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:41:28 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: note on cygmagic
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:29:07PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I tried to build a fresh cygwin dll and recognized that the tool "bc" seems newly be used in
>a helper script named cygmagic. One can say, please install it, but another way could be to
>minimize the needed helper packages. So this is a note for doing the second.
>
>I found the following line in src/winsup/cygwin/cygmagic
>
>	awk '{print "obase=16;\"0x\";", $1}' | bc
>
>another possibility without "bc" seems to me like this
>
>	awk '{printf("0x%x",$1) }'
>
>So if someone means, that this is a good note, please use it, otherwise forget it.

Duh.  Thanks for noticing this.  I have no idea what I was thinking when I
wrote this.  Your change makes a lot of sense.  I'll add it to cygmagic.

cgf

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