Re: [PATCH v2] Added file properties to windows gdb executable for all mingw32 builds.

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 08/23/2013 02:27 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:06:51 +0100
>> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
>> Right, I mean, other than the fact that the patch only
>> enabled this on mingw, there's nothing in the feature
>> itself that'd prevent it from working on Cygwin, afaik,
>> as this is a Windows binary thing, not specific of
>> MinGW's toolchain.
> 
> The question is: do the Cygwin maintainers _want_ the Cygwin GDB have
> all these resources linked into the binary.  Cygwin is a Posix
> environment, where these attributes are neither expected nor (AFAIK)
> used in any way.

I'm really just pointing out Cygwin as rationale for preferring
windows-*.c as file name instead of mingw-*.  In my mind, given
this is a Windows/PE feature, not specific of mingw, the file
naming would reflect that.  That is, name the files for what
they are, not for how they're used today.  If the Cygwin guys at
some point want to link in the resources, then it'd be a no
brainer to tweak configure.  If the files are called mingw-*, then such
a change would be kind of awkward without a file rename.  But this
is really bike shedding, not worth spending more cycles on it.  If
you guys prefer mingw, then let's go with it.

-- 
Pedro Alves