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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:22:17 -0400
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: CygUtils Version of zip (and Symlinks)
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In-Reply-To: <20000525120553.E1330@cygnus.com>; from cgf@cygnus.com on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:05:53PM -0400

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:05:53PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:56:53AM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote:
>>This may be more a question for cygwin-developers, but I hate crossposts and
>>know most readers of that list at least review this one.  So, wouldn't it be
>>appropriate when compiling without -mno-cygwin for the specs file to define
>>"unix", "UNIX" and similar "standard" defines?  They seem to be checked for
>>in newlib, zlib, X11, and many other sources?
>
>I don't see why it would be appropriate to define UNIX when you're specifying
>a command line option that says "This is not UNIX".  So, no, I don't believe
>that this is appropriate.  I don't even know that newlib will build correctly
>with -mno-cygwin.

Sorry.  I misread what was written above.  It does make sense to define these
and, in fact, I am fairly certain that they used to be defined.

Apologies for the misinterpretation.

cgf

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