X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc? Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:00:57 -0600 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <20070131131337.GA17256@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <45C0971E.4080305@byu.net> <20070131132700.GA3478@implementation.labri.fr> <20070131133102.GA17405@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20070131134842.GU27843@calimero.vinschen.de> <050901c74547$76f60e20$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20070131154054.GC19137@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <17393e3e0701310808s2e8e77d9t638d0e90a83c3ecb@mail.gmail.com> <20070131163221.GD19137@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20070131163221.GD19137@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:29:01AM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Matt Wozniski wrote: >>> Before simply ripping out support for it, how about just adding a >>> message to gcc so that when passed "-mnocygwin" on the command line, it >>> warns that it's deprecated and will be removed in the near future, >>> before processing? >> ...and add a REALLY BIG MESSAGE that, if something breaks, the person to >> complain to is the package maintainer and not the Cygwin ML. :-) > > No, if something breaks then the user has to fix it. I was responding to Corinna's comment "there are many projects out there which build environment requires `gcc -mno-cygwin' to work". Maybe these are all 'in-house' things? What I meant was to complain to the person who decided to use -mno-cygwin and not to us. :-) Sorry if that wasn't clear. -- Matthew OFFICER throws a tear gas grenade at you. You start to feel nauseous. You need fresh air quickly. > OPEN WINDOWS Sorry, I have a philosophical objection to Microsoft products. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/