From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7900 invoked by alias); 24 May 2007 15:26:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 7887 invoked by uid 22791); 24 May 2007 15:26:45 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:26:43 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4OFQM5S025683; Thu, 24 May 2007 11:26:22 -0400 Received: from pobox.fab.redhat.com (pobox.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.12]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4OFQKq5011277; Thu, 24 May 2007 11:26:21 -0400 Received: from [10.33.6.10] (vpn-6-10.fab.redhat.com [10.33.6.10]) by pobox.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4OFQJTR004210; Thu, 24 May 2007 11:26:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4655AEA3.7080309@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:26:00 -0000 From: Nick Clifton User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070301) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJ Delorie CC: bonzini@gnu.org, aoliva@redhat.com, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a check to the top level configure script for a binary-mounted cygwin-hosted build directory References: <46543BE2.1010209@lu.unisi.ch> <46555F35.40003@redhat.com> <200705241426.l4OEQ0gA020722@greed.delorie.com> In-Reply-To: <200705241426.l4OEQ0gA020722@greed.delorie.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2007-05/txt/msg00368.txt.bz2 Hi DJ, >> I agree, I think it would be very good to have this check available in >> the main autoconf sources. > > Except that it would penalize MinGW and DJGPP since they don't have a > "binmode" concept. We've put a lot of work into keeping track of > binary vs text files, why give up on it now? Are the problems described in PR 4334 also present when building under MinGW or DJGPP ? If not, then we can keep this new autoconf test as a Cygwin specific test. If those problems are also present then I would agree with you that we need to fix the binutils build process. Cheers Nick