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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:15:36 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] This -mno-cygwin question is on topic here
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:24:28PM -0500, Greg Chicares wrote:
>Norman Vine wrote:
>> 
>> Greg Chicares writes:
>> >
>> > [...] it has been proposed to use 'mno-cygwin'
>> > in the wxWindows makefiles by default for all cygwin
>> > and mingw builds (cygwin and mingw share the same
>> > makefiles).
>> 
>> As long as there is a 'standard' way of building a Cygwin
>> version this sounds fine.
>> 
>> ie
>> ./configure --host=cygwin
>> and
>> ./configure --host=mingw32
>> 
>> should 'just do' the 'right thing' *automagically*
>
>I guess that depends on what you think the right thing is.
>The person who submitted the patch says:
>
>| Default to using -mno-cygwin, it works best in mingw/cygwin/wine
>| mkdir() takes only one argument in msvcrt, and 2 in all other cases
>
>It looks like you could override this with make COMMON_FLAGS=''
>some-wxwindows-target And it appears that this change has no effect on
>'./configure', but affects only building with the canned makefiles.
>
>If you disagree with the change, here's what to do:
>
>| Patches item #667563, was opened at 2003-01-14 04:05 | You can
>respond by visiting: |
>https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=309863&aid=667563&group_id=9863
>
>Further discussion ought to go there or a cygwin list.  I don't have a
>personal interest in cygwin, and I'm not posting to their list because
>I'm not subscribed and wouldn't see any responses--so that would be
>rude.  But if you're interested in wxWindows on cygwin, feel free to
>quote this email anywhere else.

Is anyone in the cygwin list interested in wxWindows?  It seems like
defaulting to -mno-cygwin is the wrong thing to do to me but I'm not
familiar with wxWindows (please, I don't need an education, just
an informed opinion) so I don't know if this seemingly nonsensical
suggestion makes sense or not.

cgf

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