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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:36:30 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Texinfo-4.0
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In-Reply-To: <3A1C73C5.DAFD322A@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 08:32:53PM -0500

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 08:32:53PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>> However, I'm willing to be swayed on the issue.  If everyone else agrees
>> that changing the default is the right decision, I'll be happy to do it.
>
>I'm in favor of removing -DWIN32 / -DWINNT from the specs file for
>normal gcc compiles (they *would* be defined for -mno-cygwin compiles). 
>However, the real issue is Red Hat's paying cygwin customers -- how
>would *they* react to this change?

Hmm.  Excellent point.  We don't ship gcc 2.95.2 for our customers,
however, I don't know if I want to change defaults for our customers.

Earnie, have you tried building an entire source tree including gcc,
gdb, binutils, expect, dejagnu, etc.?  I wonder if there are gotchas
there.

cgf