[M3devel] [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3

[Tony Hosking]

I would have thought of CygWin as a POSIX platform that just happens  
to have Windows underneath.  Did we go round this roundabout before?

On 18 Dec 2008, at 03:29, Jay wrote:

> Eh, not a big deal, you can cd to it and it just fine.
>
> I removed it from my distribution building and regular building.
> It fails to build on I386_CYGWIN (aka NT386GNU), AND my filtering  
> wasn't working.
> I "merely" need to fix one or the other or just comment it out when  
> building Cygwin, which is rare.
>
> See...I figured..that the Cygwin serial package should still use the  
> Win32 source.
> However, that has a dependency on FileWin32.m3, which is only built  
> in "full Win32" platforms.
> If you do try to compile FileWin32.m3, it errors, because it exports  
> File, and I guess maybe FileWin32.
> Possibly I just need to have Quake do a bit of munging such that the  
> first line of FileWin32.m3 is altered.
> The NT386 version would be:
> MODULE FileWin32 EXPORTS File.
>
> The NT386GNU version would be:
> MODULE FileWin32;
>
> something like that.
>
> Or push the contents into another module, and then have a thin NT386  
> module export it as File.
>
> Anyway, it's not a huge deal.
> The main downfall is I "temporarily" no longer build it, on any  
> platform.
>
> Fixing the filtering is a better "temporary" solution, since that'd  
> restore me to building it for all but NT386GNU.
>
> Another avenue is to see if the Posix version works on Cygwin.
> I think the Cygwin serial users however are a "multiple small  
> intersection" -- people who use Modula-3 (small) intersected with  
> people who use Cygwin (medium) (probably at zero here) intersected  
> with people who use serial (very small) => very very very small, so  
> that's not worth getting it to work.
>
>  - Jay
>
>
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:12:09 -0500
> From: rcoleburn at scires.com
> To: jkrell at elego.de
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3
>
>
> Jay:
>
> Why are we skipping serial package?  I use serial I/O on Windows.   
> If you need my sources, let me know and I'll supply.
>
> Regards,
> Randy
>
> >>> Jay Krell <jkrell at elego.de> 12/17/2008 3:47 PM >>>
> CVSROOT:/usr/cvs
> Changes by:jkrell at birch.08/12/17 15:47:34
>
> Modified files:
> cm3/scripts/python/: pylib.py make-dist.py
>
> Log message:
> fix line endings and 'temporarily' skip serial package -- there's a  
> problem here on I386_CYGWIN I forgot about where essentially you  
> want to provide both FilePosix and FileWin32; FilePosix will export  
> File, FileWin32 will export FileWin32, so that portable Modula-3 can  
> use File/FilePosix and Win32 specific serial code can use FileWin32;  
> maybe some day we should try out this serial stuff, and /maybe/ the  
> Posix paths work on Cygwin? For now, just skip it. And fix line  
> endings. And try out the alternate 'clean' path in make-dist
>
>

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