Re: perl-5.6.1 DB_file support

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

"Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> 
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> > "Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> > > #if defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
> > >
> > > To accommodate *bad* ports, cygwin's gcc used to define _WIN32, but that
> > > behavior will be dropped soon IIRC.
> >
> > Where did you get that piece of information or are you dreaming?
> > Although I would wholeheartedly support such a move, I don't think that
> > the Cygwin's commercial client list would be that happy about such a
> > move.
> 
> That was my recollection of comments made on the list several months ago
> (perhaps even a far as a year?  Maybe even pre-departure-of-Mumit).
> Basically, that "Eventually we want to do X..." kinda thing.  This
> 'vague recollection' has been reinforced by several recent emails from
> you, Earnie, where you recommended using '-mno-win32'.  I assummed that
> was because the change I vaguely recalled would soon go into effect.
> 
> Perhaps I misinterpreted, and your advice about '-mno-win32' was in
> response to the defeat of the notion to remove '-D_WIN32' from the
> cygwin gcc specs.
> 

As I said, I would support wholeheartedly such a change, however Chris
Faylor and Red Hat would have the final say.  I do think that the WIN32
definitions get in the way of porting UNIX code to Cygwin especially
when Win32 porting is already existing in the code.  I do modify my own
specs file to exclude the WIN32 defines by default and change the
-mno-win32 to -mwin32 however with gcc-2.95.2-6 I had to binary edit
cc1.exe (or was it cpp.exe) to complete this.

Cheers,
Earnie.

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