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From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:49:33PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >cygwin, win32
> >cygwin, nowin32
> >no cygwin (aka mingw32), win32
> >no cygwin, nowin32
>
> -mno-cygwin and -mnowin32 is not an allowed combination.
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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's
>
> The only issue is whether to provide that macro in GNU autoconf or let
> it evolve separately in the macro archive. I think the latter is a
> better approach, at least for now.
>
Sure. I've got no problems with that.
Rob
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 03:15:06PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>On Mar 8, 2001, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Another problem is the package maintainers (if they exist) will be slow
>> to adapt to the new option and we'll be answering this question a lot.
>> I'd rather just
On Mar 8, 2001, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another problem is the package maintainers (if they exist) will be slow
> to adapt to the new option and we'll be answering this question a lot.
> I'd rather just say "Add AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32" to your script than
> trying to tel
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:23:46AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 8, 2001, "Charles S. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > So, by absorbing AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32, are you helping the GPL half,
>> > or the proprietary half?
>>
>> > By refusing to absorb
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 03:47:44AM -0500, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 7, 2001, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Basically, I think we need something like a AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32.
>>
>> I have mixed feelings about having this macro in aut
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:49:33PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>cygwin, win32
>cygwin, nowin32
>no cygwin (aka mingw32), win32
>no cygwin, nowin32
-mno-cygwin and -mnowin32 is not an allowed combination.
Please, let's not complicate this. The only thing required is a check
for -mwin32.
I'm no
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:49:07PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>On Mar 7, 2001, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Basically, I think we need something like a AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32.
>
>I have mixed feelings about having this macro in autoconf. On one
>hand, it would be kind o
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> On Mar 8, 2001, "Charles S. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So, by absorbing AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32, are you helping the GPL half,
> > or the proprietary half?
>
> > By refusing to absorb it, are you hurting the proprietary half, or the
> > GPL half?
>
> >
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> On Mar 8, 2001, "Charles S. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So, by absorbing AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32, are you helping the GPL half,
> > or the proprietary half?
>
> > By refusing to absorb it, are you hurting the proprietary half, or the
> > GPL half?
>
> >
On Mar 8, 2001, "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Having set the stage above, you can see that squid uses autoconf to
> detect what features are available, before trying to compile them in,
> and that it is very reasonable for the developers to add fine tuned
> support for various co
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From: "Alexandre Oliva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Charles S. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001
On Mar 8, 2001, "Charles S. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, by absorbing AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32, are you helping the GPL half,
> or the proprietary half?
> By refusing to absorb it, are you hurting the proprietary half, or the
> GPL half?
> Both, of course.
> Which is more important
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> On Mar 7, 2001, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Basically, I think we need something like a AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32.
>
> I have mixed feelings about having this macro in autoconf. On one
> hand, it would be kind of promoting the use of proprietar
On Mar 7, 2001, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Basically, I think we need something like a AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32.
I have mixed feelings about having this macro in autoconf. On one
hand, it would be kind of promoting the use of proprietary software.
On the other, I see it wou
We've made a change in the newest version of cygwin that stops the
Windows headers from being searched unless a -mwin32 option is specified
on the gcc command line. This option also causes Windows options like
"WIN32" to be defined automatically.
We've done this to make porting easier for some p
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