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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?
On Jun 28 16:18, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 6/28/2011 4:02 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:02 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >> Yaakov's already annoyed at me for the inequality between "standard" ABI
> >> version numbers and our cygwin ones, which are sometimes different due
> >> to historical accident or error, but we are now stuck with them.
> >
> > True to a certain extent, but there were other ways of handling it (e.g.
> > why did libncursesw have to inherit the mess of libncurses/narrow? It
> > could have been 5 or 6 instead of 10). We could even have the chance to
> > undo some of this by starting from scratch with x64 if we wanted to.
>
> With this, I agree -- mostly: if we go with Corinna's "combined package"
> approach, then cygport (or other build system tools) will need the
> ability to "repatch" and maybe even reautoconf between bitness
> builds...icky...
>
> Furthermore, on x64, there will only be one ncurses library and it will
> support the wide interface (in addition to the narrow one). E.g.
> (64)ncurses will be a 64bit version of (32)ncursesw.
Erm... btw., is there a way to say in less then 100 words why ncursesw
can't be ncurses on 32 bit?
Corinna
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