Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:24:50PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:29:01AM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> >Matt Wozniski wrote:
>> >>Before simply ripping out support for it, how about just adding a
>> >>message to gcc so that when passed "-mnocygwin" on the command line, it
>> >>warns that it's deprecated and will be removed in the near future,
>> >>before processing?
>> >
>> >...and add a REALLY BIG MESSAGE that, if something breaks, the person to
>> >complain to is the package maintainer and not the Cygwin ML. :-)
>>
>> No, if something breaks then the user has to fix it.
>>
>> I don't mind adding a deprecated feature but I think some kind of
>> optional wrapper script eliminates the need.
>
>I agree, except that some people invoke Cygwin's gcc from non-Cygwin
>programs, which would present a problem if it were a shell script.
>Perhaps we should add some option preprocessing to the gcc executable
>itself (which would exec the cross-gcc if -mno-cygwin is present)?

Argh.  The whole point of this is to eliminate the abomination that is
-mno-cygwin from gcc itself.

If people are calling gcc from non-cygwin apps, then I don't think I
care too much.  We can also provide a sed script to change "gcc -mno-cygwin"
to "i686-mingw-gcc".

cgf

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