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Re: New release time?
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:04:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:50:23PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > > My question really was: will similar problems happen in other cases,
> > > such as e.g. zlib?
> > > It seems that a user doing 3) above will endup with an application
> > > using 64 bit offsets calling functions in (old) cygz.dll that still
> > > expects 32 bits.
> >
> > Hmm. Sounds bad. Yes, that might happen.
>
> Does that support my call for urgency to rebuild packages ASAP?
Yes. It looks like packages like zlib that offer a dll and depend on
the new types should be rebuilt and uploaded at the same time as cygwin
However it's not clear how many packages are in that case. I did a fgrep
of off_t that only (?) came up with regex.h and zconf.h
I saw nothing (?) for for uid_t.
Aren't packages that only have .exe safe (or is it as long as they don't
call cygwin_internal ?).
Can we put cygwin in the exp category for a week or two, while packages
are rebuilt, tested and uploaded into exp?
Pierre