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On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >   There have been no serious objections, so I think we should go
> > ahead. Perhaps we should replace the gcc, g++, g77 etc. drivers with
> > shell scripts that look for -mno-cygwin on the command line and
> > redirect to i686-pc-mingw-{gcc,g++,etc} or to
> > i686-pc-cygwin-{gcc,g++,etc}, just to make life easier for the
> > backwardly-compatible, but I don't see any reason not to go ahead and
> > remove the option from the driver.
>
> Will using shell wrappers noticably slow down calls to gcc?  Or should
> we just start explicitly calling i686-pc-cygwin-gcc instead?  (FWIW
> Gentoo does the equivalent of the latter.)

I don't think speed itself will be a problem, unless the scripts are
really naive and involve lots of forks.  However, as I noted before,
scripts cannot be invoked from non-Cygwin programs.
	Igor
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