From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4388 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2013 13:27:59 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 4366 invoked by uid 89); 23 Aug 2013 13:27:58 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (HELO mtaout20.012.net.il) (80.179.55.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:27:57 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MRZ00G00JT34V00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:27:54 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MRZ00F5BK2IUT70@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:27:54 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:27:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Added file properties to windows gdb executable for all mingw32 builds. In-reply-to: <52175E6B.8080703@redhat.com> To: Pedro Alves Cc: bernd.bunk@intel.com, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83haegilk1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1377161766-8318-1-git-send-email-bernd.bunk@intel.com> <8361uxkbi9.fsf@gnu.org> <52166564.90605@redhat.com> <83wqndijp0.fsf@gnu.org> <52175E6B.8080703@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00669.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:06:51 +0100 > From: Pedro Alves > 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 > >> CC: Bernd Bunk , 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.