Re: participation!

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 04:29:16PM +1200, Will Mooar wrote:
>Er, please ignore the bit about problems compiling inetutils.  I retried it
>with Corinna's new configure instructions and now it works fine.
>
>Now to find that pesky bug ...

I appreciate very much that you are tracking down a bug but I'd
appreciate it if you used cygwin-apps to discuss any problems with
inetutils.

I assume that Corinna is aware of whatever problems you're having, right?

cgf

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Will Mooar" <willm@ihug.co.nz>
>To: <cygwin-developers@sources.redhat.com>
>Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:34 PM
>Subject: Re: participation!
>
>
>> Brian couldn't have said it any better.
>>
>> I suppose that I too could be called a "lurker", watching with interest,
>but
>> not actively participating in, cygwin's
>> direction, current developments and issues.
>>
>> When joining the list I had hoped I could brush up on rusty C and C++
>skills
>> by being involved, but have found other work priorities have kept me
>firmly
>> within the MS camp.
>>
>> This said, I would very much still like to stay in
>> touch with cygwin via this mailing list.
>>
>> A recent attempt to get involved by debugging a problem with inetd and
>rshd
>> failed miserably, with a newly compiled inetd simply hanging (with no
>> changes to source) - making it impossible to continue.  To compile, I
>simply
>> ran "./configure" and then "make" from the inetutils base directory.  Any
>> suggestions would be welcome.
>>
>> I'm running Win98SE with the latest cygwin 1.1.3.  I am not using the
>> development snapshots of cygwin1.dll.  I also have the same problem with
>> Win95, and similar problems with NT4.
>>
>> I have attached the results of cygcheck -s -v to this message from my
>> Win98SE box.
>>
>> Regards
>> - Will.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brian Keener" <bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com>
>> To: <cygwin-developers@sources.redhat.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:52 AM
>> Subject: Re: participation!
>>
>>
>> > I'm a lurker.  I have experience with Unix and Windows and work in both
>> > environments.  I have insufficient knowledge to actually aid in the
>> > development although I do occasionally try out some of the newer changes
>> > and report my findings but for the most part I watch the developers list
>> > to see what has changed and what is being changed and what (if any)
>> > problems may have resulted from a recent change.  One of these days if I
>> > ever get proficient enough at C or C++ maybe I can add to the
>development
>> > effort but for now I just like to keep tabs on it.
>> >
>> > Brian Keener
>> > bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
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