not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

Title: RE: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:43 PM
> To: Bernard Dautrevaux
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache
> 
> 
> --- Bernard Dautrevaux <DAUTREVAUX@microprocess.com> wrote:
> -8<-
> > 
> > Why? mingw gcc is compiled and run in the cygwin 
> environment I think, so go
> > through cygwin1.dll that handles ntsec.
> > 
> -8<-
> 
> Mingw32 gcc and binutils _DO_NOT_ use the cygwin1.dll.  That 
> is the reason it
> exists.  Instead it uses the runtime from M$.  So, Kai is 
> correct that Mingw32
> doesn't care about ntsec as far as the it's implementation 
> within cygwin1.dll.
> 


I do know that the code _generated_ by mingw32 do not use cygwin1.dll; that's effectively the reason why it exists :-)


But I think I've read that the "native" mingw32 toolset was in fact running under cygwin and using cygwin1.dll... but perhaps this is only true for the mingw32 cygwin-add-on, not for the independently distributed one. 

Forgive me if I'm not really sure, but for now quite a long time I'm using always mingw32 for all my NT development, but I'm using a cross-compiler running on UNIX (usually Linux, but I've also built the cross-toolset on other flavors of UNIX, like Solaris, where it runs fine).

Regards,


                Bernard


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