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RE: Use Tcp.h?
- From: Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygx <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 14:58:02 EDT
- Subject: RE: Use Tcp.h?
Nicholas,
> Well there is no point in keeping stale defines around, is there?
> Obviously you were curious, otherwise you wouldn't have invested so much
> time. :-)
Right, there is no point to keeping around stale defines. Of course I was
curious, and that's part of my problem: I get too curious.
> I have, you cleared things up for me. No big deal right now, but *if* you
> have some spare time this weekend maybe you could give that hdd install a
> try... Not that I know all the facts, but surely a hdd install takes less
> then 10 hours?
The problem is that I have to be careful not to misplace any data during the
drive swap and that always ends up taking a lot of time.
> I take it that you feel this wasn't worth it? I'm sorry then, I was just
> trying to be helpful.
It is always worth cleaning the code up, but I just wish that you had done a
build check and sent a patch instead of asking whether the flag could be
removed. In this case you got lucky that you didn't do a build check because
your cross compile is broken somehow and you would have mistakenly thought
that -DNO_TCP_H is required.
> I've never heard you say these remarks regarding your X skills, I just
> assumed... Well, the point is this. Move your host.def file to some
> temporary location. Then get a project that uses Imakefiles and run xmkmf
> in it's source directory. You'll see that xmkmf requires a host.def,
> empty or not, to proceed with making the makefile. I simply proposed a
> possible solution, I didn't expect you to deal with it instantly. It is
> just something that you should be aware of as a potential gotcha. I'm
> still thinking about how best to impliment the scripts, so that is why I
> submitted the issue to the list, in case someone else had an idea.
I try to reiterate my lack of X user skills at least once per quarter :)
Ah, that's the problem... I've never had to use xmkmf. I would appreciate it
if you gave me the name a small project that uses xmkmf, then I could check
this out much more easily.
Harold