Recent content by cplager

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    Cygwin, why does my lab recommend to NOT use it?

    Cygwin is nothing like a root kit. This statement is just silly. There are several programs that are known to interfere with Cygwin. These programs interfere with many others and not just Cygwin and are generally doing bad things. I have never heard of any program that is interfered with...
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    Cygwin, why does my lab recommend to NOT use it?

    I'm not convinced that Interix (now Microsoft's SUA) is POSIX-certified (although that's somewhat irrelevant). Second, Root is built for Cygwin and not for SUA/Interix. And is SUA/Interix still being maintained? Charles
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    Cygwin, why does my lab recommend to NOT use it?

    The Root website first put up that warning about Cygwin's gcc when it was gcc version 3.2. Cygwin currently uses gcc 3.4 which is a much better compiler (largely due to Dave Korn, who also posted on this forum). It's also true that some of the people who have been contributing to Cygwin's...