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According to Christopher Faylor on 1/31/2007 6:13 AM:
> 
> How about if we eliminate -mno-cygwin from future releases and either
> provide our own mingw cross-tools or wrap the offerings from mingw.org?
> This would mean that instead of saying 'gcc -mno-cygwin', you'd say:
> 'i686-mingw-gcc' which would, I know, make a few computers spontaneously
> self-destruct however, I really don't think that the -mno-cygwin belongs
> in gcc.  No other port of gcc has anything like this.

Fine by me, especially since when TRYING to cross compile, autoconf issues
a nasty warning:

$ ../configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-cygwin \
  CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' host_alias=i686-pc-mingw32
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for i686-pc-mingw32-strip... no
checking for strip... strip
configure: WARNING: In the future, Autoconf will not detect cross-tools
whose name does not start with the host triplet.  If you think this
configuration is useful to you, please write to autoconf AT gnu DOT org.
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32
...

I would much rather call the cross-compiler i686-mingw-gcc than the
current name of 'gcc -mno-cygwin'.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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