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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 15:49:02 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: zsh and line breaks
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On Apr  6 13:54, Dave Korn wrote:
> >   case "$host" in
> >   *-*-cygwin*)
> >     LIBS="$LIBS /usr/lib/textreadmode.o";;
> >   esac
> > 
> > in configure.ac would do it then.
> 
> 
>   You could take it one step further: combine that with using the --wrap
> option to ld
> 
>    case "$host" in
>    *-*-cygwin*)
>      LIBS="$LIBS /usr/lib/textreadmode.o";;
>      LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS --wrap _main"
>    esac
> 
> and textreadmode.o has a function __wrap_main that sets the textmode and
> calls __real_main.  That way the entire cygwinization can be done in
> configure and no need for #ifdefs anywhere.  OTOH it's a bit obscure
> maintenance-wise.

And what's the gain?  My above configure.ac snippet is everything needed
so what's the additional -wrap for?

Corinna

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