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- Subject: Re: [AD] Patch for makefile issue when compiling MSVC with Cygwin
- From: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 08:24:25 -0700
On Sunday 07 January 2007 8:22 am, Milan Mimica wrote:
> Andrei Ellman wrote:
> > The only thing I have my doubts about is using "ifeq ($(TERM), cygwin)"
> > to test to see if ALLEGRO_USE_CYGWIN should be set. In
> > build/mingw32.txt, it tells the user to place "export
> > ALLEGRO_USE_CYGWIN=1" in '/etc/profile'. In the interests of
> > consistency, I think we should mention this in build/msvc.txt as well so
> > we don't have to bother with ifeq ($(TERM), cygwin)
>
> We can put the "ifeq ($(TERM), cygwin)" thing in makefile.mgw too.
> Having things done automatically for the user is a good thing.
In this case, its just annoying. as is detecting sh, and setting UNIXTOOLS (or
whatever it is.
If a user really wants it, they should set it.
>
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