Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

[Daniel Richard G.]

On Thu, 2013 Oct 24 18:33+0800, JonY wrote:
>
> > I'll gladly submit a patch that allows the Libtool script to detect
> > the MSYS shell at invocation time using ${BASH_VERSINFO[5]}, if
> > that's the main objection.
>
> That was already tried, like this patch, it was messy and of
> little value.
>
[...]
>
> Already attempted, it was a mess, patch was rejected upstream with
> good cause.

Where was this discussed in the Libtool mailing lists?

> Go find Cygming project from the early GCC 2.8/2.95 era.

Also known as -mno-cygwin.

> If anything, patch is firmly rejected, status quo maintained.

Under what name do you commit changes to config.guess, exactly?


--Daniel


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