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To: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>, autoconf AT gnu DOT org, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Detecting the need for -mwin32 in newer cygwin gcc's
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From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva AT lsd DOT ic DOT unicamp DOT br>
Date: 08 Mar 2001 07:48:57 -0300
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On Mar  8, 2001, "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> wrote:

> So, by absorbing AC_PROG_GCC_USES_MWIN32, are you helping the GPL half,
> or the proprietary half?

> By refusing to absorb it, are you hurting the proprietary half, or the
> GPL half?

> Both, of course.

> Which is more important?

Autoconf is about portability across multiple platforms.  If you
depend on MS-Windows proprietary libraries, there's not much hope for
portability.  So, why use autoconf, in the first place?

If you don't depend on MS-Windows proprietary libraries, then there's
no reason for -mwin32.

Or am I missing something about the effects of this new -mwin32 flag?

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