Re: [jamboost] Re: Re: win32 gcc should use -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base for dll building

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-23 11:16:31

"William E. Kempf" <wekempf_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams said:

>> It's not misleading if the results are labelled "Cygwin GCC"
^^
>> (whatever). And even so, the toolset docs for GCC clearly state that
>> it's for Cygwin GCC only.
>
> It's not labeled "Cygwin GCC", it's only labeled "GNU GCC". 

I know.

> I wasn't aware that the gcc toolset only worked with the Cygwin GCC,
> however. And I think it's still at least confusing, if not
> misleading. 

OK.

> Further, I think it's important that we include a "true" Windows GCC
> compiler in the Windows regression reports, regardless of whether or
> not we continue to include the Cygwin results.

Probably. I'm not sure MinGW is quite as important to Windows users
as Cygwin is, but it's getting close.

>>> The question would be, then, whether or not the Windows regression
>>> report should only be using gcc-nocygwin, or if it maybe should be
>>> using both toolsets.
>>
>> We have a mingw toolset; it could always be done with gcc and mingw.
>
> Yes... that would be up to Beman I guess. It would require yet another
> installed compiler, though, so the gcc-nocygwin would probably be better.

Fine with me

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