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Re: sc_tight_scope on cygwin


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: sc_tight_scope on cygwin
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:33:00 -0600
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According to Jim Meyering on 3/27/2009 1:13 AM:
>> Nope.  Cygwin doesn't use glibc, so 'info libc' fails to turn up anything
>> at all.  Do you have a preferred way to skip this test on non-Linux
>> platforms, since glibc's info manual is unlikely to appear on any other
>> system?
> 
> If the test is skipped, it'd be nice to emit a warning,
> so that if it happens to me because I forgot to install
> glibc's documentation on a Linux system, I'll notice it.

I'll see what I can think of.  It doesn't help that with texinfo-4.13
there is a core dump when attempting to open pages that don't exist:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00974.html

>>>     nm -e *.$(OBJEXT)                                               \
>>>         | sed -n 's/.* T //p'                                       \
>>> +       | sed 's/^_//'                                              \
>> Indeed, this approach worked for me.  Is it worth trying to combine the
>> two sed invocations into one, or should I just go ahead and commit with
>> this style?
> 
> This style is fine by me.

Pushed.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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