Geomview & Cygwin setup
Dave Korn
dave.korn@artimi.com
Fri Apr 28 14:44:00 GMT 2006
On 28 April 2006 15:04, Lloyd Wood wrote:
[most of what I want to say is in the response I just sent before I just
received this reply, so I'm only going to reiterate one single *very*
important point].
> Clearer, and backwardly compatible, would be a gcc version report of
> something like:
> gcc version 3.4.4 (cygwin special) (MinGW, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)
> Saying 'ming' instead of 'MinGW' is a deliberately misleading
> distraction.
No, it's a linguistic constuct called a "contraction". You saw "cyg"
without the "win" and didn't complain about that.
> I was deliberately misinformed by gcc -v.
No, you misinformed yourself by your false assumptions about the nature of
gcc -v.
> __CYGWIN__ is defined for gcc; gcc -v should report 'cygwin special'.
> I do not recommend changing the environment to __CYGMING__ to match
> in a further attempt at humour.
>
> If you want people to use the information you provide rationally, do
> not colour that information with irrational attempts at humour to
> provide misinformation that causes doubt.
>
> We need to trust the output of gcc -v.
No, this is completely wrong and absolutely not what you want to do. The
output of "gcc -v" is a human-readable summary of various internal information
which can be obtained by more reliable means for programmatic use. Your
attempt to indirectly deduce the same info from a freeform text string
presupposes many assumptions that simply do not hold, and therefore is doomed
to incorrectness.
cheers,
DaveK
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