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Re: [RFA] windows-nat.c: Cygwin: Port to Cygwin 1.7
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:09:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFA] windows-nat.c: Cygwin: Port to Cygwin 1.7
- References: <20100228150844.GH5683@calimero.vinschen.de> <000901cab897$02f00fa0$08d02ee0$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
- Reply-to: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
On Feb 28 17:56, Pierre Muller wrote:
> Is your patch cygwin 1.7 specific?
> Are the new path conversion routines
> also available for older cygwin version?
>
> Can we still compile GDB with the cygwin 1.5
> after your patch is committed?
>
> There reason I am asking is that
> with release 1.7,
> cygwin dropped support for pre-Windows 2000
> windows releases ...
No, it doesn't. It only drops support for the very crufty, very
outdate, and very buggy 95, 98 and Me versions of Windows.
Windows NT 4 is still supported.
> Would it be possible to keep pre-1.7 support
> by adding using special preprocessor defines?
Not from my POV. Cygwin 1.5 is deprecated and you can easily use
an older GDB with it. However, it's cgf's call.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat