From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: keiths@cygnus.com, kettenis@science.uva.nl, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] sigsetjmp/siglongjmp on cygwin Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:16:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B738A04.2050407@cygnus.com> References: <3B698CED.8030007@cygnus.com> <2110-Fri03Aug2001113257+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00103.html > > Intentionally failing an Autoconf test is not my idea of using > Autoconf correctly [;-)] If all Cygwin wants is to fail that test > unconditionally, they could simply supply a config.site file which > sets the appropriate Autoconf variable (ac_cv_func_sigsetjmp, IIRC), > and not bother the GDB distribution at all. After all, the same bug > will bite Cygwin in any other package, right? > > Moreover, this problem will most probably be fixed in some future > version of Cygwin, at which point someone will have to make that test > know about specific Cygwin versions etc. IMHO, if we must have such > an ugliness, it should go into a system-specific header. Ah, you're trying to hide the ugliness (xm-*.h) while I'm trying to localize it (a single configure.in sigsetjmp test that contains all the details). I'm going to consult an expert on this one. Andrew