On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > > > There have been no serious objections, so I think we should go > > ahead. Perhaps we should replace the gcc, g++, g77 etc. drivers with > > shell scripts that look for -mno-cygwin on the command line and > > redirect to i686-pc-mingw-{gcc,g++,etc} or to > > i686-pc-cygwin-{gcc,g++,etc}, just to make life easier for the > > backwardly-compatible, but I don't see any reason not to go ahead and > > remove the option from the driver. > > Will using shell wrappers noticably slow down calls to gcc? Or should > we just start explicitly calling i686-pc-cygwin-gcc instead? (FWIW > Gentoo does the equivalent of the latter.)
I don't think speed itself will be a problem, unless the scripts are really naive and involve lots of forks. However, as I noted before, scripts cannot be invoked from non-Cygwin programs. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/