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RE: Source distribution problem with core library
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:34 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Source distribution problem with core library
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:39:19PM -0400, Don Porges wrote:
> >I think that the installable source tar.gz file of
> cygwin-1.5.25-15 is
> >not what it's supposed to be.
> >
> >I installed the latest (non-cvs) source using setup.exe,
> which got me
> >cygwin-1.5.25-15-src.tar.bz2. The specific source file that I care
> >about right now is winsup/cygwin/path.cc. By comparing it
> to the cvs
> >repsository, I can see that the file in the tarball must be
> at least 2
> >years old. (The function I was looking at is
> conv_path_list(), and the
> >change that might address my problem was made in 1.414, in August of
> >2006; it's not in the released source file.) The
> copywrights seem to
> >have been kept up-to-date in the cvs version; the one in the
> tarball is
> >labeled no later than 2006.
> >
> >Futhermore, the winsup/cygwin directory in the tarball has Changelog
> >files only up through 2005; no 2006 or 2007. The current
> Changelog with
> >2008 fixes is there. The repository has the files for 2006
> and 2007.
> >So something seems wrong. I also looked at 1.5.25-14; same story.
> >(And I looked on more than one mirror site, just to be sure.)
>
> Extracted from cygwin-1.5.25-15/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog in
> the cygwin-1.5.25-15-src.tar.bz2
> file:
>
> 2008-06-12 Corinna Vinschen <corinna...>
>
> * fhandler_console.cc (fhandler_console::open): Set
> console state last.
> Only add ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT flag if this is the
> first time we open
> the console.
>
> 2008-04-17 Corinna Vinschen <corinna...>
>
> * dtable.cc (dtable::init_std_file_from_handle): Fix
> pipe related test.
>
>
> The cygwin source tarball is correct. There is no guarantee
> that what you see in CVS will match what is released. The
> CVS trunk is where active cygwin 1.7.x development is going
> on. 1.5.25 is generated on a separate branch entirely and
> sees very little development.
>
> cgf
Thanks -- I didn't realize about the branching.
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