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Date:	Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:01:38 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: perl-5.6.1 DB_file support
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In-Reply-To:	<3A59D593.32643717@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:58:27AM -0500

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:58:27AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>As I said, I would support wholeheartedly such a change, however Chris
>Faylor and Red Hat would have the final say.  I do think that the WIN32
>definitions get in the way of porting UNIX code to Cygwin especially
>when Win32 porting is already existing in the code.  I do modify my own
>specs file to exclude the WIN32 defines by default and change the
>-mno-win32 to -mwin32 however with gcc-2.95.2-6 I had to binary edit
>cc1.exe (or was it cpp.exe) to complete this.

If you are saying that gcc is somehow ignoring the specs file, then that
is a bug.

cgf

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