From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26356 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2010 17:09:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 26336 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Feb 2010 17:09:14 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:09:10 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1BA9E6D42F5; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:09:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:09:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] windows-nat.c: Cygwin: Port to Cygwin 1.7 Message-ID: <20100228170908.GJ5683@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20100228150844.GH5683@calimero.vinschen.de> <000901cab897$02f00fa0$08d02ee0$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000901cab897$02f00fa0$08d02ee0$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-02/txt/msg00684.txt.bz2 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat