On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:09 AM, David Turner<digit@google.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Looking at configure through 'git blame' shows that the
> > "OS_CFLAGS=-mno-cygwin" line inside it is dated January 2007.
> > So I presume that no one is really testing the mainline sources on
> Windows
> > on a regular basis :-(
>
> Wrong presumption. :-) Using MSYS+MinGW here.


Mea culpa :-) Thanks for all the answers. As an after-thought, it seems the
patch could be
greatly simplified by just forcing the compiler to "gcc -mno-cygwin" if a
Cygwin environment
is detected.

I still think that the check_compile() / check_link() helpers are a good
ideas, but they are not
directly related to this issue, so they'd better be in a different patch.

I'll send these soon.

Thanks


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