Re: Cygwin and text mode

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm not the only one to stumble over Cygwin with text mode mounts[1].
> As they prevent a successful generation of config.status, this may
> need to be addressed before 2.60, or big warning letters printed to
> this extent.

No, let's not worry about text-mode mounts.  Cygwin users who insist
on using text-mode mounts will simply have to be aware of the
technical problems that ensue.

More generally, we shouldn't waste our time rewriting every GNU
program to be aware of this contrary-to-the-standard feature.  The
burden of this implementation misfeature should be on the people who
insist on using it, not on everyone else.

I don't even agree that we should waste time generating "big warning
letters" in the Autoconf documentation.  A small note should suffice.
25 words or less.  (In lower case; we don't need to shout.  :-)