Re: GCC version.c: Affect Version Number Only for MinGW/Cygwin

Ooops! Sorry, but I just realised that this will take
effect only if the compiler compiling GCC is the GCC from
MinGW/Cygwin itself - what we really want is the version
to be changed only if the *target* is mingw32.

Perhaps we can put extra -D__MINGW32_TARGET__ and
-D__CYGWIN_TARGET__ to T_CFLAGS in t-mingw32 and
t-cygwin respectively and use these defines instead?

Sincerely Yours,
Ranjit.

Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     A minor point: the MinGW patches to GCC currently
> modify the GCC version string straightaway to "mingw-special
> ..." - they should instead patch the GCC version.c file in
> a way like this:
> -------------------------- 8< -----------------------------
> #if defined (__MINGW32__)
> const char *const version_string = "3.2 (MinGW special 20020817-1)";
> #else if defined (__CYGWIN__)
> const char *const version_string = "3.2 (Cygwin special 20020817-1)";
> #else
> const char *const version_string = "3.2";
> #endif
> -------------------------- 8< -----------------------------
> 
> Otherwise, the source becomes "polluted" in the sense that
> a GCC built from this sources, say on Linux, also insists
> that it is "mingw special".
> 
> Sincerely Yours,
> Ranjit.
> 


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