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Re: GCC -mno-cygwin vs mingw32-gcc cross environment.
- To: Paul Garceau <pgarceau at qwest dot net>
- Subject: Re: GCC -mno-cygwin vs mingw32-gcc cross environment.
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 10:36:31 -0400
- CC: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- References: <3AE07A27.3AAC7BE5@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:04:23PM -0400 <3AE19065.1131.36976B@localhost>
- Reply-To: Cygwin Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
Paul Garceau wrote:
>
> I would agree with Chris...not to "deprecate", as Earnie states, but
> to discourage the use of -mno-cygwin for anyone not familiar enough
> with the differences between using -mno-cygwin vs not using -mno-
> cygwin.
> There has been a *ell of a lot of work put in to getting -mno-cygwin
> to work over the years. I don't believe that effort should be wasted
> by eliminating (or "deprecating", as Earnie puts it) the -mno-cygwin
> switch.
>
Paul, see http://www.bartleby.com/61/54/D0145400.html for a definition
of the word deprecate. As for the work in -mno-cygwin, I don't think
the current maintainer would mind not having to support it any further.
Besides it's a Cygwin specific and not a normal UNIX way of doing cross
building. MinGW is foreign wrt Cygwin and should be treated as any
other foreign host/target.
Earnie.
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