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Release of the <sys/ipc.h> and <sys/shm.h> files
- From: "Conrad Scott" <Conrad dot Scott at dsl dot pipex dot com>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:11:11 +0100
- Subject: Release of the <sys/ipc.h> and <sys/shm.h> files
In the upcoming release of cygwin, is it possible to exclude the
<sys/ipc.h> and <sys/shm.h> files from the distribution? Gerrit Haase
pointed out to me that the perl-5.8.0 configuration script generates
"entry point not found" errors (in one of those dratted dialogue
boxes) for shmat(2) under current snapshots, since it successfully
compiles a test program, against the <sys/shm.h> header, and then
tries to run it, with the predictable result (AFAICT: ever tried
reading a Larry Wall-style configure script?).
I can't see how any configure script can easily avoid such noise under
the current arrangement and worse, it might do no more than compile a
test file, and not run it too, and so configure the software to use
shared memory.
Is there any difficulty with excluding these files? or, am I behind
the times and this is already the intention? There is some discussion
of this in
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2002-03/msg00010.html
but it's not clear what the final result of this was (except that the
header files are still in the snapshot).
// Conrad