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Re: [PATCH] Makefile: update defaults for modern Cygwin

From
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Date
Apr 5, 2010, 14:44 UTC
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<20100405143053.GA13093@progeny.tock>
On 04/05/2010 08:30 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>> Cygwin 1.6 is on par with 1.5 feature-wise, so your cutoff of 1.6 as the
>> last old version is correct.
> 
> Thanks for explaining.
> 
>> ifeq ($(shell case '$(uname_R)' in (1.[1-6].*) echo old;; esac),old)
> 
> Looks good to me.

Junio mentioned he had already queued your first version of the patch; are you going to re-submit it with this tweak?

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> 
> While I have your attention, do you know of a simple way to test
> Cygwin programs under Linux?  setup.exe does not work well under wine,
> so I am asking mostly in the hope that there is a .tar.gz or .zip
> binary distribution somewhere I could play with.

Sadly, the fact that wine is not yet able to run setup.exe is evidence that wine is still lacking some emulation abilities, and while I am aware that the situation is trying to be improved, I am not actively participating in that effort. For now, I am only aware of the ability to run cygwin on native windows boxes (including virtual machines). In fact, I'm currently using a 240-day evaluation license of Windows Sever 2008 inside a VM to experiment with cygwin on my Linux box, without having spent any extra money.

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Message 9 of 11 in “Makefile: update defaults for modern Cygwin”
  1. Makefile: update defaults for modern CygwinEric Blake, Apr 1, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2010
  3. Eric BlakeApr 2, 2010
  4. Jonathan NiederApr 3, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 3, 2010
  6. Teach mailinfo %< as an alternative scissors markJonathan Nieder, Apr 3, 2010
  7. Eric BlakeApr 5, 2010
  8. Jonathan NiederApr 5, 2010
  9. Eric BlakeApr 5, 2010
  10. Makefile: avoid a fork in Cygwin version checkJonathan Nieder, Apr 5, 2010
  11. Andreas SchwabApr 5, 2010

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