Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Jon Leichter" To: "Robert Collins" , Cc: Subject: RE: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:57:02 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <02e401c18edd$7521cab0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sorry Chris... just some final words... > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au] > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 5:28 AM > To: Jon Leichter; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch > > > 3) There's a problem with Cygwin-specific libraries residing in > > /usr/lib. ... I, of course, updated the specs file to accomodate > > this. My environment now works flawlessly. When OpenLDAP > > looks for libncurses, it doesn't find it, as it shouldn't. > > This seems like an interesting approach. I wonder if anything would get > broken by it (other than ALL the existing packages that provide > libraries :}). Most libraries included with packages install in /usr/local/lib (opposed to /usr/lib). As for libraries that it may depend upon, as long as my GCC specs file knows where to find libraries, I don't see a problem. > > I wonder if anyone else thinks it would be a good idea to relocate > > Cygwin > > I think this may be easier than fixing gcc, but I'm sure that fixing gcc > is a better long term approach. However as I don't have the time nor > inclination to fix gcc myself, my opinion is just that. > Not only is relocating easier, but it's the only current solution to this particular situation. However, I FULLY agree that the CORRECT solution is to "enhance" gcc, perhaps to have it honor a switch (e.g. -nostdlibdirs) which will cause it to ignore the hard-coded standard default directories, i.e. /usr/lib and /lib (which are one and the same in Cygwin). Since I won't be submitting this proposed patch either, this is all just my opinion as well... Jon -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/