Re: [PATCH v2] Improved ^c support for gdb/guile

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
> Cc: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès),  guile-devel@gnu.org,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 02:50:36 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Also, since the only way I could get a functional MinGW Guile was to
> > configure it without threads, I would suggest that this be the default
> > for MinGW, but that isn't a big deal.
> 
> FWIW, the situation seems to have improved since you last looked.  In
> the last couple of weeks, madsy on #guile reported cross-building a
> recent Guile snapshot (stable-2.0 branch) using MinGW

Which MinGW?  It sounds like nowadays one needs to distinguish between
the various flavors.  The exact port of pthreads and gc might also
matter.

> with thread support enabled and without --disable-posix, and it
> seems to work reasonably well.  It runs the REPL without problems
> and passes much of the test suite.

Good to know; I hope to see a release some place near me in a
not-so-distant future, and will test this at that time.