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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:15:48 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Carlos Puig <cpuig AT home DOT com>
CC: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Texinfo-4.0
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Carlos Puig wrote:
> 
> Note: One small patch is needed to make texinfo-4.0 under cygwin.  On line 106
> of the generated makeinfo/Makefile, add -DWIN32 as follows:
> 
>     DEFS = -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I$(srcdir) -I..
> 
> to
> 
>     DEFS = -DWIN32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I$(srcdir) -I..

AArrrrggghhh!!!  No.  Don't rely on -DWIN32 -- it often turns on too
many windows specific hacks, and leads to huge troubles later on. 
Cygwin is not windows.  What you should do, is inspect every .h and .c
file, looking for '#ifdef WIN32'.  If the block of code 'turned on' by
the WIN32 flag is truly necessary on cygwin, then change the '#ifdef
WIN32' to 

  #if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)

If the block of code 'turned on' by the WIN32 flag is NOT needed on
cygwin, then change the '#ifdef WIN32'
 
  #if defined(WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)

--Chuck