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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:48:23 -0500
To: Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Can't build Make from source because Windows header
  filesmoved to  /usr/include/w32api?
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At 08:15 AM 3/1/2001, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> >  Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:30:25 -0500
> >  From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
> >  
> >  > I know how to work around this, but my question is.... Is this a known
> >  > problem, what's the correct way to fix it, and when will it be fixed
> >  > in the precompiled stuff being distributed by RedHat?
> >  > 
> >  
> >  CC='gcc -mwin32' ../configure
>
>Thanks, but I don't think this really answers my question.
>
>Shouldn't "configure" for a Cygwin source package just Do The Right
>Thing?  That's the whole point of "configure", isn't it?  So if some
>Cygwin source packages depend on win32 header files or whatever,
>shouldn't the configure script included with those packages
>automatically add "-mwin32" or "-I/usr/include/w32api" or whatever to
>the compiler flags?



This will happen when somebody submits a patch to make this happen.  Since
this is package dependent, it will likely take some time to work out.  Most
of the efforts on this list are need-based.  If you have some immediate need, 
feel free to start the ball rolling!:-)



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