Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:42:41AM +0100, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> We've learned that the usage of GCC on U/WIN involves a violation of
> the GNU GPL, linking GCC with a non-free third-party support library;
> therefore, we have removed the support for such usage.
> 
> Note that GCC is merely a special case: it is a violation of the GPL
> to link *any* GPL'd program with the U/WIN support library.

Why? On a U/WIN host the Uwin library is a system library (because U/WIN is the
system), and the GPL allows linking with proprietary system libraries.


-Andi