-mno-cygwin, huh?, wha? [RE: Pbm with ar.h when compiling make-3.80 for mingw]

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

Thanks, Dave, for your continued vigilance.

Is there something (besides hippos) in the water or something?  We seem
to be getting an increased number of non-cygwin "problem reports"
recently.

cgf

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From: Dave Korn
To: cygwin
Subject: RE: Pbm with ar.h when compiling make-3.80 for mingw
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:50:42 -0000

On 15 February 2006 18:42, Xavier Marichal wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> To make a long story short, I want to re-build make-3.80 for mingw/msys
> usage because I encounter some problems with the mingw distribution...

  WTF does the mingw version of make have to with cygwin?

> After downloading the sources fro gnu, I launched ./configure.
> Then, in-line with the recommendations of
> http://www.delorie.com/howto/cygwin/mno-cygwin-howto.html, I did modify
> the resulting Makefile in the following way:
> CFLAGS = -g -O2 -mno-cygwin

  What part of "NO CYGWIN" don't you get?

> What shall I do then? 

  Talk to the MinGW hand^Wlist, because the cygwin face-aint-listening?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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