From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: B20 release date approaches...
29 Oct 1998 13:04:51 -0800
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To: Bart Anderson <banders AT ec DOT rockwell DOT com>
Cc: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

vfOn Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:54:55AM -0600, Bart Anderson wrote:
>
> I guess you decided mingw would have to be the "option" rather than
> -mno-mingw and leave the unixy thing the "option".

Sounds good to me...

Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> 
> 2) The difficult thing about making Mingw the default is that that
>    will hose builds of Unix packages without additional configure
>    work (to add the -mcygwin flag at configure/make time).  If all you
>    care about is Mingw, it's easy to rewrite the gcc specs file to
>    default the other way.
> 
> 3) Defaulting to Mingw within the context of a new ix86-win32
>    configuration cookie is still the long-term plan.

I don't understand (3), given (2).  If defaulting to mingw is going to
require a whole lot of work, why not just leave gnu-win32 as the default?

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