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Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 10:24:15 -0400
To: "Frank Cottrell" <frank AT businesscraft DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Missing library routines
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At 12:08 AM 5/7/2002, Frank Cottrell wrote:
>Thanks Larry,
>
>I suspected that might have been the answer, but I could not find any
>evedence of the previous discussions to be sure about it.
>
>The only strange thing left for me is the question:
>
>Why, if Cygwin uses the newlib library, does it not appear on the setup
>program list - I only see newlib-man as a file listing out the routines of
>the library.


It's such an integral part of Cygwin, it comes with the Cygwin source package 
and is included as part of the binary distribution of the Cygwin package.


>I had to go to sources.redhat.com/newlib and load down the source in order
>to build the library manually.
>
>Other than the above confusion, I will do as you suggest and add the
>required routines to my copy of newlib if it configures and builds ok for
>me.
>
>'Thanks again for replying and helping me with my dilema so quickly


Glad I could help.



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