Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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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@gnu.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'.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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