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Re: B20 release date approaches...


Oh... that's goooood! ;)

Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> 
> 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".
> >
> > Oh well... scripts can fix that...
> 
> Three notes:
> 
> 1) I didn't think I was even going to be able to get mingw as an
>    option in in time for b20 but happily it will be...
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Geoffrey Noer
> noer@cygnus.com

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