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Re: introduce --enable-mingw-full32 to default to --large-address-aware
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 7:37 PM JonY <10walls@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/10/2018 04:58 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On Oct 10, 2018, JonY <10walls@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/10/2018 03:24 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >>> On Oct 9, 2018, JonY <10walls@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> Now, if you wish it to affect Cygwin as well, I could implement that,
> >>> and drop -mingw from the option name. I'd retain the current defaults
> >>> of each target, unless there's a strong reason to change them.
> >
> >> In that case, no objections then.
> >
> > Thanks. Now, before I proceed, please clarify: did you mean you had no
> > objections to the patch I last proposed, or to the plan in my last
> > paragraph above?
> >
>
> Your last proposed plan to use --enable-mingw-large-address-aware to
> affect only mingw. If there are more targets in the future that need
> this, we can always drop the mingw part in the configure option.
Except that options typically don't get removed, just deprecated. It
seems cleaner to me to drop mingw from the name and make it default to
enabled for cygwin.