Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

2013-10-24 Thread 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. >

Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

2013-10-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:40 AM, JonY wrote: > On 10/24/2013 14:04, Daniel Richard G. wrote: >> On Wed, 2013 Oct 23 7:55-0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>> >>> JonY you forget to mention that what Daniel is trying to do has >>> already been tried once and long since abandoned in favor of using a >>> cros

Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

2013-10-24 Thread JonY
On 10/24/2013 14:04, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > On Wed, 2013 Oct 23 7:55-0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> >> JonY you forget to mention that what Daniel is trying to do has >> already been tried once and long since abandoned in favor of using a >> cross compiler. Remember the -mno-cygwin conglomeration

Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

2013-10-24 Thread JonY
On 10/24/2013 13:58, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > On Wed, 2013 Oct 23 18:05+0800, JonY wrote: >>> >>> I never suggested replacing Cygwin-GCC with MinGW-GCC >> >> You just did, CC=i686-pc-mingw32-gcc, they are NOT drop-in >> replacements. > > I'm aware that the two compilers produce different kinds o