Re: [PATCH] Allow decimal floats for mingw-w64

[JonY <jon_y at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On 9/3/2010 08:26, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 24/08/2010 16:06, Kai Tietz wrote:
> > 2010/8/24 JonY<jon_y@users.sourceforge.net>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Attached patch enables i?86-w64-mingw32 and x86_64-w64-mingw32 decimal float
> > > support with bid.
> > >
> > > Tested with x86_64-w64-mingw32. Is attached patch OK for trunk?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2010-08-24  Jonathan Yong<jon_y@users.sourceforge.net>
> > >
> > >         * configure.ac: Allow w64 targets to use bid decimal floats.
> > >         * configure: Regenerated.
> >
> > Patch is from my side ok. I added Dave to CC. Maybe he wants that it
> > gets added for cygwin, too?
>
>    I'm currently testing a build that I did with Uros' patch and manually
> configuring with '--enable-decimal-float' and it seems to be going pretty
> well, so yes please Jon, if you don't mind spinning another respin.

Spinning another respin? I thought --enable-decimal-float was ignored
for cygwin and mingw?

>    BTW, re Ralf's earlier point: for preference please actually /omit/ the
> diffs of the generated configure files altogether, we only need to see the
> change to the .ac file, because autoconf is very deterministic, and the actual
> configure file diffs often contain tons of uninformative noise from the
> expansions of all the macros and the changes in error line number reporting(*).

Yes, I was wondering about that. New patch attached, this time only
configure.ac and the new m4 file.

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