Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3D6CADB2.630F792@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:02:10 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: A quick note on References: <000201c24e27$ffa0bb10$6132bc3e AT BABEL> <20020828003122 DOT GL16631 AT redhat DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > This is one of the reasons that I'm getting sick of our dependency on > newlib. I've asked that cygwin be taken into account when making > changes like this but, the last I heard, the newlib guys were stalled > trying to accommodate my request since the two year old gcc cross > compiler that they insist on using is no longer able to build cygwin. > > It's easy enough to add another include path to cygwin but I'm not sure > that I want to do that. I think, instead, I'm going to start thinking > about how we can eliminate our dependency on newlib. > There's always the possibility of a fork. :o You could then remove the rtems specifics and the linux specifics and the ... I've not noticed any major changes to the core functions so it wouldn't hurt. Earnie.