Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

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> I like this slogan:  "Cygwin: nice, but not reliable".  We should adopt
> this, and refer 90% of the mailing list complaints to it. :-)
> 	Igor

I am not really sure how to understand the joke.

cygwin worked flawlessly for me for very long time. May be I have been 
lucky, but this made me develop an attitude of blind trust in cygwin.

Then came this 'getline' problem and what is confusing is not that 
things broke, but the reaction of the cygwin people.

What I saw is that it is possible that cygwin breaks from one day to the 
next in critical area, and the reaction will be that everything that 
breaks is at its own fault.

The problem is that if Apache have not fixed their 'getline' since 2002, 
it is very likely that they will not fix it soon, if at all. cygwin has 
quite a marginal place in comparison to all other operating systems they 
should address, an cygwin should be - due to this - a bit more careful 
when challenging the word.

At least for me with cygwin is over.

Iv.


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