Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-10 Thread anitak
Hi, By seeing these hot discussions of -mno-cygwin swich I started a canadian cross for building a mingw hosted SH targetted cross compiler on cygwin environment. I am stuck with the following problem. Will be very thankful if anybody guides me on this? Regards, Anita - Original Message

Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
> Subject: Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:29:14 -0500 > From: "Soren Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 26 Dec 2001 at 20:33, Jon Leichter wrote: > > > I have a

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-09 Thread Robert Collins
Soren, you may find this an interesting read. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. It attempts to explain some of the motivations behind a few (not all) of the brusque behaviours exhibited by many hacker communities (and those lead by hackers even if not exclusively composed there

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
cgf wrote: > Hmm. Have you been reading the mingw mailing lists? That wasn't clear. I > don't see any messages from you but I've only been archiving them since > August or so. And ... does that (august of 2001) seem like a long time ago, to you? So that you can feel pretty confident about bei

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:55:12PM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: >On 8 Jan 2002 at 19:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>They don't seem to have anyone like me, for instance. :-) > >I don't know what to make of that, precisely. It doesn't seem to me >that you manifest particularly obnoxious behavior

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Off the top of my head, there are a few issues with mingw support in > cygwin gcc (I think most if not all have already been mentioned): > > 1) It's supported by me currently. While I have no problem with mingw as >an entity, it's not my project, and maintaining

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote > I've been reading the mingw mailing lists for a while and I really don't > see anything like this. Most of the replies are very courteous. > > They don't seem to have anyone like me, for instance. :-) Speaking of single-handedly destroying the open source movement

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
On 8 Jan 2002 at 19:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:29:14PM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: > >This lack of sponsorship maybe is also part of the noted tendency for > >minGW priciple persons to manifest some, uhh, let's say testiness. > > I've been reading the mingw maili

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:29:14PM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: >This lack of sponsorship maybe is also part of the noted tendency for >minGW priciple persons to manifest some, uhh, let's say testiness. I've been reading the mingw mailing lists for a while and I really don't see anything like thi

Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Soren Andersen
On 26 Dec 2001 at 20:33, Jon Leichter wrote: > It's been a long time since I was active on this list. I have not used > Cygwin for over a year, until recently. I see that Cygwin has been updated > quite a bit since I last used it. It's very nice to see these new features. Me too (well that made

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Lapo Luchini wrote: >>Yeah, and we can kiss that pesky "UNIX emulation" claim of cygwin's >>goodbye, too. Somehow, I don't think that you'll find many library >>files in /usr/lib/cygwin on, say, HP/UX, Linux, Tru64, etc. >> >>This method solves a "problem" for -mno-cygwin at the expense of >>imp

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Lapo Luchini
> Yeah, and we can kiss that pesky "UNIX emulation" claim of cygwin's > goodbye, too. Somehow, I don't think that you'll find many library > files in /usr/lib/cygwin on, say, HP/UX, Linux, Tru64, etc. > > This method solves a "problem" for -mno-cygwin at the expense of > impacting many other pack

RE: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Jon Leichter
> - Original Message - > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > However , once gcc's specs are changedm linking with the libraries > they > > > provide will fail - which is what I was talking about. > > > > Hmm... I'm not sure why this would be the case. I have relocated my > > lib

Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > However , once gcc's specs are changedm linking with the libraries they > > provide will fail - which is what I was talking about. > > Hmm... I'm not sure why this would be the case. I have relocated my > libraries, and I ha

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 06:46:25PM -0800, Jon Leichter wrote: >>From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>However , once gcc's specs are changed linking with the libraries they >>provide will fail - which is what I was talking about. > >Hmm... I'm not sure why this would be the case. I h

RE: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:35 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch > > However , once gcc's sp

Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I was not talking about pre-packaged Cygwin binaries. And I still claim that > even after you install Cygwin packages, they will operate if you relocate > the libraries in /usr/lib. This is because the Cygwin binaries depend o

RE: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Jon Leichter
depend on DLLs accessible via the PATH, which are NOT relocated from /usr/bin. Jon > -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:23 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Potential problems w

Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Most libraries included with packages install in /usr/local/lib (opposed to > /usr/lib). As for libraries that it may depend upon, as long as my GCC specs > file knows where to find libraries, I don't see a problem. Please ch

RE: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Jon Leichter
Sorry Chris... just some final words... > -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 5:28 AM > To: Jon Leichter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch >

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:02:46PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:28:22AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >>> = >>> >>>3) There's a problem with Cygwin-specific libraries residing in >>>/usr/lib. ... I, of course, updated the specs file to accomodate >>>this.

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:28:22AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >> = >> >>3) There's a problem with Cygwin-specific libraries residing in >>/usr/lib. ... I, of course, updated the specs file to accomodate >>this. My environment now works flawlessly. When OpenLDAP looks for >>libncurses

Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-27 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1) MinGW support in Cygwin GCC is flaky and buggy That pages suggests that is _has been_ f & b - and it has. It's better now than it ever has been, and still has ... quirks. > 2) MinGW support in Cygwin GCC will possibly be

Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2001-12-26 Thread Jon Leichter
Hello all. It's been a long time since I was active on this list. I have not used Cygwin for over a year, until recently. I see that Cygwin has been updated quite a bit since I last used it. It's very nice to see these new features. I have a couple of issues to discuss about Cygwin GCC and it's