Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Remove all generated RPC files from GIT

On 05/09/2011 03:21 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>> +my $fixup = $^O eq "linux"; >> >> I guess I'll see what happens when I try this on Cygwin, but if there >> are any followups needed, it should be separate patches. As is, cygwin >> already can't use -Werror because of repetitive declarations in the >> tirpc headers that trigger one of our default set of gcc warnings. > > This shouldn't make Cygwin any worse should it ? We don't support > running bootstrap on Win32 at all, only building from a dist. So > they'd not be running rpcgen Why not? Prior to this patch, there was nothing that prevented me from building libvirt.git on cygwin, and if it's not too hard to keep it that way, I don't see why we would want to insist that cygwin is a tarball-only build platform.