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Re: [RFC] sigsetjmp/siglongjmp on cygwin
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:41:44 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
>
> > I suggested to put the work-around into config.site, precisely to
> > solve this. Assuming such a config.site is made part of the core
> > Cygwin distribution, whenever sigsetjmp starts working, config.site
> > should be updated. So a user which upgrades to a newer version of
> > Cygwin has this issue magically taken care of during the upgrade.
>
> Eli, can you expand a little. I'm not sure what would happen if a
> current GDB was configured/built on an old cygwin which didn't have the
> config.site file.
Probably a moot point, now that the issue is closed, but here goes
anyway: the way to solve this is to put a config.site file into the
GDB source distribution (in some Cygwin-specific directory) and tell
the users to use that if they don't have config.site on their system.