Re: Packages to update for cygwin 1.5.4 release?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:04:56AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>I am in the middle of rebuilding Cygwin/XFree86 for Cygwin 1.5.4.
>
>I wanted to check with others about the list of packages that should be 
>updated for the Cygwin 1.5.4 rebuild.  Currently, I am thinking that the 
>following packages need to be updated:
>
>1) XFree86-bin
>2) XFree86-fsrv
>3) XFree86-prog
>4) XFree86-nest
>5) XFree86-prt
>6) XFree86-vfb
>7) XFree86-xserv
>
>
>Any thoughts on what should happen with XFree86-lib-compat?  Will it 
>even work anymore?  If not, I had better pull it... but I don't want to 
>if I don't have to.

If a (dll or .a) library is exporting any function which passes around
one of the types that have changed (uid_t, gid_t, off_t, ino_t, etc.)
then it won't work anymore.  Really, only libraries have to be
recompiled unless you have a program that needs to manipulate a >2G
file.

cgf