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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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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