From: csoelle AT sghms DOT ac DOT uk (Christian Soeller) Subject: Re: Default compiler behaviour for b19 11 Sep 1997 14:16:16 -0700 Message-ID: <5090x43pmf.fsfcygnus.gnu-win32@mbcsg1.sghms.ac.uk> References: <199709091041 DOT DAA19490 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com> Fergus Henderson writes: > Having `gcc' behave in this way makes sense only if the first > goal is totally abandoned. But I don't see why we can't have both. > The second goal is not particularly important to me, but if you want > it, then surely the sensible thing would be to have two different commands > (even if one is just a shell script that invokes the other with > an certain option set). `gcc' should be the unix compatible version. > Some other name should be chosen for the Win32 compiler. > How about using an environment variable for this? If the variable is not defined everything behaves as is. E.g., GCCUSECYGWIN=YES means link by default and GCCUSECYGWIN=NO gives the opposite. So everybody can decide what his/her default mode is and command line switches can be used to override. Sounds to me like everybody should be happy ;) Christian - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".