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

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:06:51 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: bernd.bunk@intel.com, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On 08/22/2013 08:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:24:20 +0100
> >> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> >> CC: Bernd Bunk <bernd.bunk@intel.com>, tromey@redhat.com,        gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> >>
> >> On 08/22/2013 04:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>
> >>> The GNU project doesn't like calling Windows a "win", so I suggest to
> >>> rename the files and the script to use something like mingw instead.
> >>
> >> I'd think this works just as well on Cygwin binaries?
> > 
> > Not as submitted:
> 
> 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.