Re: [PATCH] autoconf: Add tests for memmem, strtoumax and mkdtemp functions

From: Stefan-W. Hahn <stefan.hahn@s-hahn.de>
Date: Nov 20, 2007, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20071120181202.GA12389@scotty.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4u5l29v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Also sprach Junio C Hamano am Tue, 20 Nov 2007 at 01:00:44 -0800:

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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > By the way, do you have idea how to test for the following
> > in configure.ac:
> >
> > * Define NO_PREAD if you have a problem with pread() system call (e.g.
> >   cygwin.dll before v1.5.22).
> >
> >   - what is the problem? how to detect it?
> 
> 6900679c2f6d937a5a6ef616869c8887690ad19d (Replacing the system
> call pread() with lseek()/xread()/lseek() sequence.)
>

For me it happened when using git (e.g. git commit). Detecting perhaps is possible with "cygcheck" command which shows the version of cygwin system dlls.

Perhaps: cygcheck -p 'cygwin1.dll'
Shows name and version of found cygwin1.dll.

Stefan

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