New package behaviour of setup.ini

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 10 13:58:00 GMT 2008


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:00:53AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:35:23PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> I thought the next version of gcc was not going to perpetuate the
>>> -mno-cygwin madness.  I'd really prefer not releasing a version with
>>> this option even if it is just commented out.
>
>This is truely experimental stuff, but if it works well I'm planning to
>move very fast to a 4.3.2 release, so I'll patch it out there; but I've
>kept everyone waiting more than long enough and have limited free time.

I don't mean to sound ungrateful but I thought a big motivator for this
release was to remove -mno-cygwin.  Having YA release with it activated
is bound to generate confusion.

cgf



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