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Re: [PATCH v2] Added file properties to windows gdb executable for all mingw32 builds.
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: bernd dot bunk at intel dot com, tromey at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:27:58 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Added file properties to windows gdb executable for all mingw32 builds.
- References: <1377161766-8318-1-git-send-email-bernd dot bunk at intel dot com> <8361uxkbi9 dot fsf at gnu dot org> <52166564 dot 90605 at redhat dot com> <83wqndijp0 dot fsf at gnu dot org> <52175E6B dot 8080703 at redhat dot com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:06:51 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: bernd.bunk@intel.com, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> On 08/22/2013 08:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:24:20 +0100
> >> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> >> CC: Bernd Bunk <bernd.bunk@intel.com>, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> >>
> >> On 08/22/2013 04:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>
> >>> The GNU project doesn't like calling Windows a "win", so I suggest to
> >>> rename the files and the script to use something like mingw instead.
> >>
> >> I'd think this works just as well on Cygwin binaries?
> >
> > Not as submitted:
>
> Right, I mean, other than the fact that the patch only
> enabled this on mingw, there's nothing in the feature
> itself that'd prevent it from working on Cygwin, afaik,
> as this is a Windows binary thing, not specific of
> MinGW's toolchain.
The question is: do the Cygwin maintainers _want_ the Cygwin GDB have
all these resources linked into the binary. Cygwin is a Posix
environment, where these attributes are neither expected nor (AFAIK)
used in any way.