Re: Build with cygwin gcc

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:25:17 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows
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> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 07:49:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Stacy Leon <[email protected]>
> 
> If I build make with cygwin gcc by running configure and make I get an exe
> that works and passes the -j option to sub-makes. What are the drawbacks to
> using this build method?

If you need to use Make for invoking Cygwin tools, no drawbacks at
all.  But if you need to invoke native Windows and MinGW tools, there
will be subtle incompatibilities.