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Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?


On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:39:46AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb  1 02:16, Christopher Layne wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:13:37AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > When I was maintaining cygwin's gcc, I often thought about eliminating
>> > -mno-cygwin and just providing a pure mingw cross compiler in the
>> > distribution.  I really don't know why it wasn't done that way to begin
>> > with.  I have vague recollections of arguing for this when -mno-cygwin
>> > was first introduced by Geoff Noer but apparently I wasn't very
>> > persuasive.
>> > 
>> > I know that this will probably be another "Death of Cygwin predicted"
>> 
>> Fine by me. Can we slip in removing text mounts at the same time? ;)
>
>Oooooh, now you spoiled the surprise.  I hoped to get the text mode
>out secretly...

Yeah, darn it.  It was going to be a Valentine's day surprise.

We were going to replace text mounts with automatic file conversion using
"d2u":

  cygwin: CRLF line endings detected.  Converting.

cgf

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