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Subject: 3.14.8 / cygwin dependency
From: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
To: EPICS Core Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:55:25 +0100
Hi -

I just realized that 3.14.8 on Win32 needs cygwin to be compiled. (I.e. the make run breaks without it.)

Up to and including 3.14.7 the Windows builds were working perfectly using the native Windows Commandline Shell. I never used cygwin, I never installed cygwin, and I was actually quite happy without it. (Among other things it allowed me to simply reject all cygwin-related questions that local people were asking me. And there were a lot of those.)

So: Is this intentional?
If yes: What change between 3.14.7. and 3.14.8 was important enough to justify adding an additional package to the prerequisites list for Windows? Shouldn't there be a word in the release notes about that?

Hmmm ..... I still don't see why we have to depend on cygwin - can anyone explain?

Cheers,
Ralph


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