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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.


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