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Re: HEADSUP package maintainers: Welcome to Cygwin 1.5.0


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brian Ford wrote:

> Sorry, I should have asked about this back on cygwin-developers, but I
> wasn't thinking that hard about it then.
>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > lseek and lseek64 are both exported from the Cygwin DLL.  Old
> > applications still use the lseek entry point since they don't know
> > better.  Newly build applications on the other hand will use the
> > lseek64 entry point directly.  But how do they know?  That's done
> > at link time.  The new libcygwin.a import library translates call
> > to lseek to calls to lseek64 transparently.  Applications don't have
> > to know anything, they just get it for free.
> >
> Do you really mean at link time?
>
> If these were translated via the headers at compile time, then new
> executables with old libraries might have a better chance at working, each
> in their own 32 or 64 bit world, but together.  Obviously, they still
> couldn't pass the types that changed sizes between them, though.
>
> > This means, the package maintainers of libraries, especially those
> > which provide DLLs should build a new version of their packages
> > as soon as possible.  Only with all libs finished, we can finally
> > migrate the whole Cygwin net distro to 64 bit.
> >
> So, I'll ask again.  What about libraries that depend on libraries?  Wait,
> or go?

Wait. Think of it like this: if your package *depends* on another package or
packages, you must wait until that package or packages have been re-linked
against Cygwin 1.5.0 .

> Thanks for your help, and your hard work to make this happen is greatly
> appreciated.

Elfyn

-- 
Elfyn McBratney, EMCB
http://www.emcb.co.uk
elfyn@emcb.co.uk



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