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Subject: Re: patch for autoheader.sh
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From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva AT dcc DOT unicamp DOT br>
Date: 13 Jan 1999 08:37:40 -0200
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On Jan 13, 1999, "Gary V. Vaughan" <gvaughan AT oranda DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 13, 1999, Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv> wrote:
>> 
>> > No problems with /dev/null in DJGPP. But I don't know how it will be
>> > with for example CygWin (as I'm not using it).
>> 
>> It works.

> IIRC, cygwin emulates /dev/null properly only on NT.  I'm pretty sure
> win95 has problems... not sure about win98.

It worked for me on win98, and I'm pretty sure it used to work on
Win95 too, but I can't test it any more :-(

> Time for another configure test?

Ugh!  Better avoid it.  /dev/null is so abused that we'd die before we
could replace all uses of it with the result of the configure test.
Better let them broken until Cygnus fixes cygwin, if this is really
broken.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil