Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: magetower.office.aol.com: prentis owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:55:52 -0500 (EST) From: Prentis Brooks To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: tcp wrappers In-Reply-To: <20020320163738.GH2762@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:09:57AM -0500, Prentis Brooks wrote: > >Ok, gang, > > I finally got the time to finish up the build so that I had all > > the pieces defined in the contributor's document. It is now > > ready for upload. > > Can you repost the setup.hint? Chuck made some observations on the last > one that you posted so I'd like to see what you have now. > > Hmm. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to make the wrapper library a > DLL. I would rather we didn't, primarily because the modification to make tcp wrappers work with Cygwin was simplistic. In fact, at this point the modification is only to the Makefile, plus a line in one another file. It is my understanding from Mumit Khan that the tcp wrappers author is going to incorporate this patch into the next release of tcp wrap. Taking that into consideration, wouldn't turning the libwrap into a DLL cause a (kind of) branch? > > cgf > -- Prentis Brooks | prentis AT aol DOT net | 703-265-0914 | AIM: PrentisBrooks Senior System Administrator - Web Infrastructure & Security A knight is sworn to valor. His heart knows only virtue. His blade defends the helpless. His word speaks only truth. His wrath undoes the wicked. - the old code of Bowen, last of the dragonslayers