On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:29:28PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote:
> Am Freitag, 17. März 2006 17:31 schrieb Enrico Forestieri:
> > Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > Next time I will try to get rid of it and tell you. I can't right
> now,
> > > > because building from scratch takes 1.5 hours for me.
> > >
> > > OK, if you confirm that you don't have any problem without the option,
> I
> > > would suggest to just eliminate it in cygwin.m4.
> >
> > It seems that -mms-bitfields is necessary in some circumstances.
> > However, it is a gcc issue, not cygwin. See for example:
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg21724.html
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg39400.html
>
> That means it is necessary if you want to link against libraries compiled
> by a MS compiler, and it will hurt if you link against libraries compiled
> by gcc without this switch.
> Further investigation shows that this setting was added by Kayvan on
> 2003-03-12 (see config/ChangeLog). The reference mentioned in the
> ChangeLog added this option only for mingw, and I think that is correct.
>
> Kayvan, are you listening? Why did you introduce this option also for
> cygwin?
I think this was related to trying to compile for QT/Cygwin. If we can
compile for QT on Windows without this, then I am all for removing it.
I have to go through and follow the new recipes for QT on Windows for
Cygwin to get back up to date with the latest stuff...
---Kayvan
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