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Re: 1.5.0-1 Working Great Here
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:08:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: 1.5.0-1 Working Great Here
- References: <000001c346fd$4685a620$2101a8c0@BRAEMARINC.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Gary R Van Sickle wrote:
> XPPro, NTFS. Builds working GCC cross compiler and binutils just fine,
> which covers a lot of intermediate territory. Autoconf/Automake/Perl still
> work. I don't know if the tools thus built use 64-bit file APIs, since I
> don't have any source files exceeding 4GB ;-). And I've even been using the
> snapshots.
Please don't forget that 1.5.0 not only introduces 64 bit file offsets
but also 32 bit uids and gids. Testing this is pretty easy by changing
/etc/passwd and /etc/group. Just keep in mind that all tools not build
for 1.5.0 will not like uids/gids > 64K...
Corinna
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