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bug#50666: 28.0.50; Fix native compilation on Cygwin
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#50666: 28.0.50; Fix native compilation on Cygwin |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 08:54:50 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:22:28 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> Cc: Stromeko@nexgo.de, 50666@debbugs.gnu.org, akrl@sdf.org
>
> 32-bit Cygwin has just been demoted to a third-class citizen. Cygwin 3.3.0
> was
> released this morning, with a deprecation notice that it is the last major
> version supporting 32-bit installations. In view of this, I don't want to
> put
> any energy into supporting native compilation on 32-bit Cygwin, and I doubt
> if
> Achim does either.
>
> Eli, what do you think of the attached (assuming Achim agrees)?
Assuming this decision of the Cygwin developers is final, I don't
mind. But why do we want to depend on an environment variable for
enabling the 32-bit build? why not a configure-time command-line
option?