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RE: Geomview & Cygwin setup


At Friday 2006-04-28 17:44 +0100, you wrote:
On 28 April 2006 17:07, Lloyd Wood wrote:

> At Friday 2006-04-28 11:45 -0400, Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\) wrote:
>> If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should use
>> "-dumpmachine" instead.
>>
>>  $ gcc -dumpmachine
>>  i686-pc-cygwin
>>  $ gcc -dumpmachine -mno-cygwin
>>  i686-pc-mingw32
>
> Having identification behaviour dependent on a cygwin-specific flag
> like this is.. insane.

When you use -mno-cygwin, you are invoking A DIFFERENT compiler.

If you don't install any of the gcc-mingw- upgrade stuff (devel tab in Cygwin), you only want ONE compiler.


L.

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