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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?
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On Feb  1 02:16, Christopher Layne wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:13:37AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > When I was maintaining cygwin's gcc, I often thought about eliminating
> > -mno-cygwin and just providing a pure mingw cross compiler in the
> > distribution.  I really don't know why it wasn't done that way to begin
> > with.  I have vague recollections of arguing for this when -mno-cygwin
> > was first introduced by Geoff Noer but apparently I wasn't very
> > persuasive.
> > 
> > I know that this will probably be another "Death of Cygwin predicted"
> 
> Fine by me. Can we slip in removing text mounts at the same time? ;)

Oooooh, now you spoiled the surprise.  I hoped to get the text mode
out secretly...


Corinna

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