Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/01/31/11:08:43
On 1/31/07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I feel pretty strongly about this. I really don't think this option should
> exist. It's unlike every other gcc port on the planet.
>
> cgf
Before simply ripping out support for it, how about just adding a
message to gcc so that when passed "-mnocygwin" on the commandline, it
warns that it's deprecated and will be removed in the near future,
before processing? Or, better yet, for perhaps one major version,
have gcc warn that "-mnocygwin" is deprecated, and then just call
"execle" to run i686-mingw-gcc with the other arguments? (Assuming
that the arguments would be compatible). If cygwin's gcc has been
this nonstandard for so many years, what's another change to slowly
phase out this 'feature'? While I agree that it wasn't a good feature
to add in the first place, I think that removing it without at least a
deprecation warning for a version or two will flood the mailing list
with traffic by people who didn't realize that something they used was
being phased out until they upgraded and things just "broke".
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