Subject: RE: Geomview & Cygwin setup
From: "Dave Korn" <[email-masked]>
To: "'Lloyd Wood'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:44:43 +0100

On 28 April 2006 17:07, Lloyd Wood wrote:

> At Friday 2006-04-28 11:45 -0400, Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\) wrote:
>> If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should use
>> "-dumpmachine" instead. 
>> 
>>  $ gcc -dumpmachine
>>  i686-pc-cygwin
>>  $ gcc -dumpmachine -mno-cygwin
>>  i686-pc-mingw32
> 
> Having identification behaviour dependent on a cygwin-specific flag
> like this is.. insane. 

  When you use -mno-cygwin, you are invoking A DIFFERENT compiler.  Having the
*same* identification for two different compilers that target different
targets would be insane.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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