New package behaviour of setup.ini

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Fri Sep 12 11:55:00 GMT 2008


Albrecht Schlosser wrote on 12 September 2008 08:51:

> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote on 10 September 2008 14:58:
>> 
>>> I don't mean to sound ungrateful but I thought a big motivator for this
>>> release was to remove -mno-cygwin.  Having YA release with it activated
>>> is bound to generate confusion.
>> 
>>   You will be pleasantly surprised when I update to 4.3.2 sometime
>> tonight or tomorrow.  :)
> 
> But what will be the alternative for those who are using -mno-cygwin?
> 
> Will there be a simple (cross compile) replacement, as discussed
> previously. 

  Yes!  Write "i586-pc-mingw32-gcc" instead of "gcc -mno-cygwin" and you're
done.  End of story; it really will be that straightforward.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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