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Re: U/WIN host
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: Momchil Velikov <velco at fadata dot bg>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:54:05 -0400
- Subject: Re: U/WIN host
- References: <87off97i94.fsf@fadata.bg>
- Reply-to: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:17:11PM +0300, Momchil Velikov wrote:
>Out of curiosity, why is the following excerpt from gcc/confgiure.in.
>What is the difference to using, e.g., Solaris or any other
>proprietary OS as a host platform ?
>
>case "${host}" in
>*-*-uwin*)
> AC_MSG_ERROR([
>*** UWIN may not be used as a host platform because
>*** linking with posix.dll is not allowed by the GNU GPL])
> ;;
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