Geomview & Cygwin setup
Lloyd Wood
L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk
Fri Apr 28 17:28:00 GMT 2006
At Friday 2006-04-28 17:44 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 28 April 2006 17:07, Lloyd Wood wrote:
>
> > At Friday 2006-04-28 11:45 -0400, Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\) wrote:
> >> If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should use
> >> "-dumpmachine" instead.
> >>
> >> $ gcc -dumpmachine
> >> i686-pc-cygwin
> >> $ gcc -dumpmachine -mno-cygwin
> >> i686-pc-mingw32
> >
> > Having identification behaviour dependent on a cygwin-specific flag
> > like this is.. insane.
>
> When you use -mno-cygwin, you are invoking A DIFFERENT
> compiler. Having the
>*same* identification for two different compilers that target different
>targets would be insane.
But gee, that's exactly what gcc -v provides. A single identification
for both compilers.
Why isn't there a gcc -v -mno-cygwin, then?
It's all positively minging. (Chris: note the usage tip. First g
pronounced as j, so it's unlike any Chinese dynasties or Flash
Gordon's nemesis.)
L.
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