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Re: RFC: Removing --enable-win32-registry?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at alum dot bu dot edu>
- To: "Stephan T. Lavavej" <stl at caltech dot edu>
- Cc: GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 19:05:52 -0400
- Subject: Re: RFC: Removing --enable-win32-registry?
- References: <20040407193047.00A2226AE90@water-ox.its.caltech.edu>
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:29:35PM -0700, Stephan T. Lavavej wrote:
>[Nathanael Nerode]
>>This seems to be an essentially unused option. Removing it would allow
>>for some serious cleanup of prefix.c (which currently has annoying
>>little bugs like #9968).
>
>>mingw32* -- all the mingw32 developers seem to --disable it
>
>Kill it. As a MinGW user/builder, I don't want it. If it were gone,
>that'd be one less thing for me to disable. And if nuking it helps you
>fix bugs, all the better.
Ditto. As the windows maintainer, I have never enabled it and have
winced over the code in prefix.c.
I would like to get Danny Smith's (I've bcc'ed him) ok on this, though.
He generates the mingw version of gcc. I'm pretty sure he would be ok
with it but I don't know for sure.
cgf