Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: michael-ring@t-online.de (Michael Ring) To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Cc: chuckmeade@yahoo.com Subject: Re: makeinfo not built to run under win32 ? Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:28:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20000810162453.B11273@cygnus.com> <20000811113927.E19565@cygnus.com> <02a801c005c5$246e04a0$0100000a@TIMYX18EWDT6RQ> In-Reply-To: <02a801c005c5$246e04a0$0100000a@TIMYX18EWDT6RQ> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Sender: 320032306730-0001@t-dialin.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id LAA26262 On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:56:22 -0700, you wrote: >AFAIK the texinfo part of gcc is not intended to be maintained, rather >will be removed from that distribution, so it seems logical enough to >remove it ourselves when we already have a satisfactory makeinfo >incorporated in cygwin. Yes, Mumit did a great deal of the work to >include cygwin with secondary support or whatever they call it in gcc, >but that doesn't extend to the texinfo part of gcc, which we don't need. > >Tim Prince >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chris Faylor" >To: >Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 8:39 AM >Subject: Re: makeinfo not built to run under win32 ? > > >> On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:46:14AM -0400, Chuck Meade wrote: >> >When you say that the version on sources has a lot of extra >> >patches, do you mean the version of makeinfo in cygwin, or the >> >makeinfo source in gcc? >> >> I mean the gcc sources. Mumit Khan did a lot of work on gcc itself. >> >> cgf >> >> -- >> Want to unsubscribe from this list? >> Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com >> I had a problem with install-info 3.12 and for that reason I patched & recompiled texinfo-4.0. It passes all it's internal tests and seems to work fine. I have included the patch but will also upload a pre-compiled test-version to cygwin. Please monitor the cygwin-apps list to get the information when I am done with uploading. Michael Ring diff -Naur texinfo-4.0_o/makeinfo/files.c texinfo-4.0/makeinfo/files.c --- texinfo-4.0_o/makeinfo/files.c Tue Mar 23 21:42:44 1999 +++ texinfo-4.0/makeinfo/files.c Sun Aug 13 20:01:03 2000 @@ -178,7 +178,12 @@ count += n; if (0 < count && count < file_size) result = xrealloc (result, count + 2); /* why waste the slack? */ - else if (n == -1) + else +#ifdef __CYGWIN__ + if (n != n) +#else + if (n == -1) +#endif #else /* !VMS && !O_BINARY */ count = file_size; if (read (file, result, file_size) != file_size) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com