From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: B20 release date approaches... 29 Oct 1998 13:04:51 -0800 Message-ID: <19981029182205.25371.cygnus.gnu-win32@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <19981023180142.17047@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Bart Anderson Cc: Geoffrey Noer , gnu-win32@cygnus.com vfOn Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:54:55AM -0600, Bart Anderson wrote: > > I guess you decided mingw would have to be the "option" rather than > -mno-mingw and leave the unixy thing the "option". Sounds good to me... Geoffrey Noer wrote: > > 2) The difficult thing about making Mingw the default is that that > will hose builds of Unix packages without additional configure > work (to add the -mcygwin flag at configure/make time). If all you > care about is Mingw, it's easy to rewrite the gcc specs file to > default the other way. > > 3) Defaulting to Mingw within the context of a new ix86-win32 > configuration cookie is still the long-term plan. I don't understand (3), given (2). If defaulting to mingw is going to require a whole lot of work, why not just leave gnu-win32 as the default? -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".