On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 05:07:47PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:38:08AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > >> Georg Baum a écrit : > >>> Am Freitag, 14. April 2006 10:09 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > >>>> Lars Gullik Bjønnes a écrit : > >>>>> Why isn't the two first lines deleted? > >>>> Because I know sxxt about M4 :-) > >>>> I suppose I can delete that but then what's the use of cygwin.m4? Could > >>>> we just delete the file and let it rest in peace? > >>> Yes, if this check is not needed anymore then you should delete cygwin.m4. > >> OK, thanks. > >> But before I do that, I need Enrico advice. Enrico, is there any option > >> that you set manually that could end-up in this file? I was thinking of > >> the -mno-cygwin option... > > > > I think I am the last one who has a say on this. However, there is > > something that could help. If possible, it would be nice to have > > added to CXXFLAGS the define "-DQ_CYGWIN_WIN" *when* the option > > --without-x is passed to configure *and* platform is cygwin. > > > > I am no m4 expert, but could see what I can do. Anyway, this is not > > strictly necessary as that define can be set through CPPFLAGS. > > I would prefer something that is ready to compile out of the box so > let's try to improve the wannabe windows developer ;-) > I am checking in my change right now and we work from there.
Ok, I'll have a look at it, then. > > I don't think that it is wise to fiddle with the -mno-cygwin option, > > though, as it requires that you really know what you are doing, and > > I think you know what I mean. > > How do you pass it yourself? Via CPPFLAGS? I am interested and Angus is > also interested in using that so I'd like to try... It would not anyone > except us two or three :-) Actually, it is quite simple. You should set CC, CPP, CXX, and CXXPP when invoking configure, like this: cd build ../configure CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' CPP='gcc -mno-cygwin -E' \ CXX='g++ -mno-cygwin' CXXCPP='g++ -mno-cygwin -E' ... > Thanks Enrico and stop being so modest please ;-) Uh? I simply try to not appear as presumptuous ;-) -- Enrico
