Saturday, June 28, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] stat() vs cygwin

Andrew Dunstan schrieb:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Heh. Maybe not dead, but certainly not really alive either ;-) Given the
>> evidence in your patch that clearly 8.3 isn't quite up to speed on
>> cygwin, and nobody has really noticed until now.
>>
>
> AIUI, only the gssapi stuff is broken. Most users are not likely to want
> it on Cygwin I should think. (And plenty of distros are still on 8.2 and
> earlier, anyway).

Well, native windows users is a very nice to have. Actually a killer
feature.

> What would be nice would be for Reini to set up a Cygwin buildfarm
> member that uses all the switches that the Cygwin distro wants to use.

Without ENABLE_SSPI I just need
--enable-nls --with-CXX --with-openssl --with-perl --with-python
--with-libxml --with-libxslt --with-ldap
and these build out of the box.

>> I also notice this in auth.c:
>> +#ifdef·__CYGWIN__
>> +#define·WIN32
>> +

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