RE: Xggi/glide

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>]

Mumit,
It was from NT 4.0 SP 5.  I do not use Win95/98.  I had enough
troubles with Win95/98.  Last year all the departments under my control
were forced to give up Windows 95/98 and use NT 4.0.

Regards
Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mumit Khan [mailto:khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 4:11 PM
> To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi
> Cc: Cygwin-Xfree@Sourceware.Cygnus.Com
> Subject: RE: Xggi/glide
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
>
> > thanks.  It was misc.h in Xserver/include.  It had
> > #if!defined(LYNX) && !defined(AMOEBA)
> > #ifndef (abs)
> > #define abs(x) ((x) > 0 ? (x) : -(x))
> >
> >
> > I added && !defined(__CYGWIN32__) to it.
>
> Too bad you have to deal with sloppy code. This can be done the right
> way without these adhoc defines. Also, please use __CYGWIN__, not
> __CYGWIN32__.
>
> > Should I upgrade to gcc 2.95?  gcc from egcs-1.1.2, with July
> 03 snapshot,
> > is skipping files and
> > complaining file not found or giving compiler errors, as I
> wrote in previous
> > mail.
>
> The problem is in Cygwin, and I believe on Win9x, where multiple files end
> up getting the same inode numbers. The C preprocessor in egcs and gcc use
> the inode numbers to avoid including the same file multiple
> times, and this
> causes problems when two *different* files have the same inode number.
>
> I'm going to disable this inode optimization for the next snapshot and
> quit possibly for the release as well. This has caused a tremendous
> amount of confusion and eaten up lots of my time trying to find a problem
> that only shows up on others people's machines!
>
> If you see this problem on NT as well, please let me know. In the
> meantime,
> here's to see if you have the same problem:
>
> - compile file foo.c file with -H option. You'll see all the includes.
> - now check the inode numbers of these includes. I'm including a simple
>   program at the end.
>
>     $ gcc -o inode-test.exe inode-test.c
>     $ ./inode-test file1 [file2 ... ]
>
> Regards,
> Mumit
>
> == cut here to end
> /* inode-test.c: Find the inode given a file.  */
>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int
> main (int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>    int i;
>    for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
>      {
>        struct stat buf1, buf2;
>        int result;
>        const char *path = argv[i];
>        printf ("File: %s\n", path);
>
>        result = stat (path, &buf1);
>
>        if (result == 0)
> 	 {
> 	   printf ("STAT() reports:\n  ================\n");
> 	   printf ("    st_mode = %d\n", buf1.st_mode);
> 	   printf ("    st_ino = %ld\n", buf1.st_ino);
> 	   printf ("    st_dev = %d\n", buf1.st_dev);
> 	   printf ("    st_nlink = %d\n", buf1.st_nlink);
> 	   printf ("    st_uid = %d\n", buf1.st_uid);
> 	   printf ("    st_gid = %d\n", buf1.st_gid);
> 	   printf ("    st_size = %ld\n", buf1.st_size);
> 	   printf ("    st_rdev = %d\n", buf1.st_rdev);
> 	   printf ("    st_blksize = %ld\n", buf1.st_blksize);
> 	   printf ("    st_blocks = %ld\n", buf1.st_blocks);
> 	 }
>        else
> 	 {
> 	   perror (path);
> 	 }
>
>        result = lstat (path, &buf2);
>
>        if (result == 0)
> 	 {
> 	   printf ("LSTAT() reports:\n  ================\n");
> 	   printf ("    st_mode = %d\n", buf2.st_mode);
> 	   printf ("    st_ino = %ld\n", buf2.st_ino);
> 	   printf ("    st_dev = %d\n", buf2.st_dev);
> 	   printf ("    st_nlink = %d\n", buf2.st_nlink);
> 	   printf ("    st_uid = %d\n", buf2.st_uid);
> 	   printf ("    st_gid = %d\n", buf2.st_gid);
> 	   printf ("    st_size = %ld\n", buf2.st_size);
> 	   printf ("    st_rdev = %d\n", buf2.st_rdev);
> 	   printf ("    st_blksize = %ld\n", buf2.st_blksize);
> 	   printf ("    st_blocks = %ld\n", buf2.st_blocks);
> 	 }
>        else
> 	 {
> 	   perror (path);
> 	 }
>      }
>   return 0;
> }
>