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RE: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?


On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 31 January 2007 16:19, Brian Ford wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> If we REALLY wanted to preserve -mno-cygwin, we could do so as a shell
> >> script wrapper for gcc but, personally, I think I'd rather just tell
> >> people to use the cross-compiler.
> >
> > Why not just alias -mno-cygwin to -b i686-mingw?
>
>   Because it always works better to invoke the real driver than to try and
> play -B/-V games....  :)

-V definately, but -b would seem much safer, no?

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