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Re: #ifdef WIN32 in setup sources


On Aug 11 15:54, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:56:11PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >can somebody explain to me why we have a lot of places related to
> >file I/O where setup.exe has two codepaths, along the lines of
> >
> >  #if defined(WIN32) && !defined (_CYGWIN_)
> >    ...
> >  #else
> >    ...
> >  #endif
> >
> >IIUC, the second codepath is never used anyway.  So, why bother?
> 
> I think in the old days you could build a cygwin-specific version of
> setup.exe.  I don't think we should care about this anymore.

Ok, I won't.


Corinna

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