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Re: RFC: Adding a check to the top level configure script for a binary-mounted cygwin-hosted build directory
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: nickc at redhat dot com
- Cc: bonzini at gnu dot org, aoliva at redhat dot com, binutils at sourceware dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:26:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a check to the top level configure script for a binary-mounted cygwin-hosted build directory
- References: <m3odkbity0.fsf@redhat.com> <46543BE2.1010209@lu.unisi.ch> <46555F35.40003@redhat.com>
> I agree, I think it would be very good to have this check available in
> the main autoconf sources.
Except that it would penalize MinGW and DJGPP since they don't have a
"binmode" concept. We've put a lot of work into keeping track of
binary vs text files, why give up on it now?