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Re: [patch] Fix i386-mingw32 build failure
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:38:26AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:05:26AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>This would conflict with my proposed changes to pex-win32.c . It seems
>>>>like getting '#!' functioning on mingw would be a better solution than
>>>>relying on $(LN) on mingw.
>>>
>>>FWIW, I'm opposed to the "#!" change to MinGW. It just seems hackish to
>>>me, and it means that we'll pay an additional cost on all normal uses of
>>>pex-* on MinGW, even after the compiler is installed.
>>
>>
>>Not if it's implemented after CreateProcess fails, we won't. I don't
>>think your argument applies.
>
>Good point!
>
>I still think it's a bad solution, though; it's imposing special
>semantics for process execution in libiberty, rather than the normal
>ones that you would expect from the OS.
Aren't the pex* functions designed to provide a uniform interface where
"uniform" means "like unix"?
cgf