Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?

2000-11-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:26:32AM -0800, Mo DeJong wrote: >On 18 Nov 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> On Nov 17, 2000, Eric Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > So a solaris cross cygwin compiler would define EXEEXT to be .exe, >> > however, OBJEXT would be .o because it was compiled

Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?

2000-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:51:47AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >On Nov 20, 2000, Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I suppose a compiler that targets Cygwin will create .obj object files >>> regardless of its host platform. > >> Hmm, I don't think so. > >I stand corrected. Anyone can

Re: Moving the autoconf archive to Red Hat

2000-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:14:25PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote: >Hi everybody, > >due to a change of jobs, I am losing access to research.cys.de -- the >current home of the autoconf macro archive. I could in fact move the >archive to some other site (http://cryp.to/), but I wonder whether it >wouldn

Re: Moving the autoconf archive to Red Hat

2000-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:51:23AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:14:25PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote: >> >Hi everybody, >> > >> >due to a change of jobs, I am losing access to rese

Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
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. >> >>

Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's

2001-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

Re: updated win32 macro

2001-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:29:34PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >Neato.. But can we put CFLAGS="$WIN32FLAGS $CFLAGS" or will that break >other things? AFAIK (Chris - any comment) the -mwin32 needs to go >first.. It breaks builds from the gcc or gdb build trees which override CFLAGS from the top l

Re: updated win32 macro

2001-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:27:45PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >just a note: another reason that LDFLAGS etc aren't changed, is that >it's not needed: > >(from the gcc specs file entry *cpp: > >%{mwin32:-DWIN32 -D_WIN32 -D__WIN32 -D__WIN32__ -DWINNT -idirafter >/usr/include/w32api} >) > >Of cours

Re: updated win32 macro

2001-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:54:01AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >> I still don't think all of this fuss is really worth it but I'm going >to >> add my 29 cents worth in this thread. >> >> AISI, what is needed is only whether or not the the compiler supports >a >> -mwin32 switch. Then the configur

Re: updated win32 macro

2001-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:12:57AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:29 AM >Subject: Re: updated win32

Re: updated win32 macro

2001-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:56:43AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >So in a nutshell, because some packages change CFLAGS, and others change >CC, we require everyone to change their Makefiles ? > >I agree that overriding CC is bad - thats why it was changed to CFLAGS. >But CFLAGS is the standard way

Re: autoconf auxdir

2001-04-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 07:48:39PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >On Thursday 12 April 2001 11:13 am, Akim Demaille wrote: >> > "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Alexandre> On Apr 11, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Given that we want to prom

Re: how portable is fchdir?

2003-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:43:11PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: >Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Do any of you know of reasonably modern systems >> that do *not* support fchdir? > >It's broken in Cygwin, at least for 1.3.6-6. See: > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg00963.html

Re: how portable is fchdir?

2003-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:52:52PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: >Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >It's broken in Cygwin, at least for 1.3.6-6. See: >> >> Quoting a year-old message hardly qualifies as "broken on cygwin". &g

Re: cygwin enviroment conflicts with autoconf configure scripts

2003-06-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:21:34AM -0500, Wayne Scott wrote: >I have been debugging a problem in Windows under the Cygwin enviroment, >where a autoconf configure script would fail to run correctly if the >user executing the script was not the same person that installed >cygwin. That's an indicatio