From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] windows-nat.c: Cygwin: Port to Cygwin 1.7
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100228170908.GJ5683@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000901cab897$02f00fa0$08d02ee0$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
On Feb 28 17:56, Pierre Muller wrote:
> Is your patch cygwin 1.7 specific?
> Are the new path conversion routines
> also available for older cygwin version?
>
> Can we still compile GDB with the cygwin 1.5
> after your patch is committed?
>
> There reason I am asking is that
> with release 1.7,
> cygwin dropped support for pre-Windows 2000
> windows releases ...
No, it doesn't. It only drops support for the very crufty, very
outdate, and very buggy 95, 98 and Me versions of Windows.
Windows NT 4 is still supported.
> Would it be possible to keep pre-1.7 support
> by adding using special preprocessor defines?
Not from my POV. Cygwin 1.5 is deprecated and you can easily use
an older GDB with it. However, it's cgf's call.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-28 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-28 15:09 Corinna Vinschen
2010-02-28 16:56 ` Pierre Muller
2010-02-28 17:09 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2010-02-28 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-28 17:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2010-02-28 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-28 18:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2010-02-28 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-28 19:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2010-02-28 22:30 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-03-01 9:10 ` Corinna Vinschen
2010-03-01 10:04 Roland Schwingel
2010-03-01 15:23 ` Christopher Faylor
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