Re: RFC: Adding a check to the top level configure script for a binary-mounted cygwin-hosted build directory

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:26:27 +0100
> From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
> CC: bonzini@gnu.org, aoliva@redhat.com, binutils@sourceware.org,         gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> Are the problems described in PR 4334 also present when building under 
> MinGW or DJGPP ?  If not, then we can keep this new autoconf test as a 
> Cygwin specific test.

I think such problems cannot happen with DJGPP or MinGW, so this test
should be kept as Cygwin-specific one.

I agree with DJ that the Cygwin tools had better handle this EOL
problem no matter what's the mount mode, but if Cygwin folks don't
feel like going that way, and think it's okay to force binmode mounts
in this situation, I don't see why we should object.