[Freeciv-Dev] Re: win32 server

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2001/01/22 07:50 , Andreas Kemnade wrote:
>Gaute B Strokkenes writes:
> > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > I have put the win32 common and server stuff into a diff.  I hope it
> > > is clean enough to go into CVS. I have tried building linux version
> > > after applying the patch so it should not break anything.  The code
> > > is based on my 1.11.4 windows stuff, so it should be well tested. I
> > > hope that at least the server of the mostly used binary distribution
> > > can be build directly from cvs soon. (autoconf stuff is included).
> > 
> > I notice that you're patching the stuff in intl/ quite extensively.
> > While a lot of your changes are quite sensible (using stdio rather
> > than file descriptors directly, for instance) I don't think it's
> > desirable to fork GNU gettext.  I think you'd be a lot better of by
>
>What do you mean? I have only changed the file descriptors and some 
>"don't run as root" stuff. I have never called fork() which does not
>exist on windows (It is only in cygwin.dll). Or have you looked
>accidentially in a file which is not in intl/ 

We never change anything (except .cvsignore) in intl.  Doing a "cvs log" in
intl is very interesting.  ( ... 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 ... )

jjm