From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 804 invoked by alias); 24 May 2007 18:26:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 775 invoked by uid 22791); 24 May 2007 18:26:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (213.8.233.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:26:46 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-125-125.inter.net.il [84.229.125.125]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HXH56704 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 24 May 2007 21:26:31 +0300 (IDT) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:26:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Nick Clifton CC: dj@redhat.com, bonzini@gnu.org, aoliva@redhat.com, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <4655AEA3.7080309@redhat.com> (message from Nick Clifton on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:26:27 +0100) Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a check to the top level configure script for a binary-mounted cygwin-hosted build directory Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <46543BE2.1010209@lu.unisi.ch> <46555F35.40003@redhat.com> <200705241426.l4OEQ0gA020722@greed.delorie.com> <4655AEA3.7080309@redhat.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00377.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:26:27 +0100 > From: Nick Clifton > CC: bonzini@gnu.org, aoliva@redhat.com, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > >> 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. I think such problems cannot happen with DJGPP or MinGW, so this test should be kept as Cygwin-specific one. I agree with DJ that the Cygwin tools had better handle this EOL problem no matter what's the mount mode, but if Cygwin folks don't feel like going that way, and think it's okay to force binmode mounts in this situation, I don't see why we should object.