From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Removing --with-gcc, Cygwin [was Re: 23.0.50; Image support disabled by default?] Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:32:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87sl0o5wtf.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org> <479776B3.6010500@gnu.org> <8uodba7c7j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201991543 10625 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2008 22:32:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 22:32:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Yavor Doganov , Jason Rumney , YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 02 23:32:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JLQuh-0007JE-Nq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:32:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLQuG-0006iy-16 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:32:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLQuA-0006em-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:32:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLQu9-0006bx-6c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:32:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLQu9-0006bf-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:32:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JLQu8-0002Wf-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JLQu7-0003EY-Nd; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:32:07 -0500 X-Spook: MD5 counter terrorism anarchy Abbas jihad TELINT X-Ran: a()J}wbA\=~(D!]J^3pkY}.emGs[]4WZ1{JqMA0F*l=5%6'q^;V-|_T-rZB+8#1Wbx~=S, X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:20:00 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88063 Archived-At: Tom Tromey wrote: > I don't see a reason to have --without-gcc at all. The normal > approach is to have the user set CC on the command line and then have > configure detect whether or not it is gcc; AC_PROG_CC will do this. [patch elided] Sounds fine to me. etc/PROBLEMS and nt/INSTALL both suggest using '--with-gcc' (plus other stuff) for some Cygwin builds. Does Cygwin actually need --with-gcc for some reason, or is it ok to remove it?