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From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Hide sethostname() in unistd.h
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1434574654.11212.4.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5581D7C4.1000207@t-online.de>

On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 22:25 +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> Busybox does not use autoconf or similar. It requires manual platform 
> specific configuration which does not yet support a missing 
> sethostname(). After adding HAVE_SETHOSTNAME manually and some other 
> minor additions, busybox (which many commands enabled) compiles and 
> works reasonably.
> Would ITP make sense ?

TBH I'm not sure.  Presuming you're discussing the single-executable
build (so as not to clobber coreutils etc.), there is still the question
of (not) matching the heavily-patched coreutils wrt .exe handling etc.
What do you think the use case would be?

--
Yaakov



  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-17 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-16 16:27 Christian Franke
2015-06-16 17:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-17  5:39   ` Christian Franke
2015-06-17  8:46     ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-17 20:25       ` Christian Franke
2015-06-17 20:57         ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2015-06-17 21:15           ` Eric Blake
2015-06-18  8:26             ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-19  5:28               ` Christian Franke
2015-06-19  8:20                 ` Corinna Vinschen

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