<tar.h>

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com
Fri Aug 3 21:44:00 GMT 2007


Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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>> I just found out the hard way that newlib (and hence cygwin) do not
>> provide <tar.h>.  A patch was proposed in 2005[1], but with no response;
>> google turned up no further discussion on the topic.
>>
>> [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2005/msg00099.html
>>
>> Could this patch please be considered?
>>
>
> Ok, checked in.  It never got checked in and there was no follow-up from
> Ralf who submitted it.  The probable reason: nobody cared since no 
> functions reference it; however, yes, it is part of SUSV3, only 
> contains macro definitions, and after two years, one person (you) 
> actually wants it, so I have checked it in.
>
This was during a big sweep where we tried to reduce the RTEMS
newlib patch to nothing.  I can see where it got lost.  At this point
I assume we didn't miss anything else. :)

Are there other standard header files which don't have functions
that are missing?

--joel
> -- Jeff J.
>
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>> Yaakov
>> Cygwin Ports
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