gcc questions prior to -8 release

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Feb 28 13:00:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:53:15AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:38:47PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 2) If we want to stick with -mno-win32 as the default, should gcc
>>    include /usr/include/w32api by default?  I really don't think that
>>    it should but I don't look forward to submitting changes to 
>>    the stuff in sources.redhat.com that breaks as a result.
>
>Have we reached closure on the above?
>
>I can build the current Python CVS with gcc 2.95.2-6 but not 2.95.2-7
>unless I specify -I/usr/include/w32api.  Will the "extra" option be
>needed for 2.95.2-8 and later too?

The majority of people liked the -7 behavior which was to avoid
adding /usr/include/w32api to the search path unless -mwin32 was
specified, so that's what I'll be doing in -8.

cgf



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