Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:56:35 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: GNU C Library and cygwin
Message-ID: <20020626135635.GA28356@redhat.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <09LUQQ515ZOMHFKJ5ZYXPK9SR12Z DOT 3d19c746 AT lmdk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <09LUQQ515ZOMHFKJ5ZYXPK9SR12Z.3d19c746@lmdk>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:53:10AM -0600, Gerald Howse wrote:
>Got your eMail from the cygwin site.
>
>Just cygwin installed OK and was configuring so I can
>run OCaml on my win98box.  OCaml wouldn't compile so started
>installing GTK libs that ./configure was asking for and found
>that the GNU C Library is not ported to cygwin.  
>
>Any chance that GNU C Library might get ported to cygwin?

I think you're a little confused about cygwin.  Cygwin provides the
equivalent of a C library for Windows.  Porting glibc *to* cygwin would
be redundant.

Anyway, there are no plans on doing anything with glibc.

cgf
--
Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions.
Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ .

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/