Hackable Mercurial: linker_exe and no-cygwin

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 00:22 +0300, Eduard-Cristian Stefan wrote:
> On the wiki page:
>      Edit c:\hg\hg-python26\Lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py
>      to remove all references to -mno-cygwin (thanks, GCC!)
> 
> In the hg-python26\Lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py:
>      linker_exe='gcc -mno-cygwin',
> 
> Should it be linker_exe='gcc' ?

Here are the changes I made:

@@ -319,11 +319,11 @@
         else:
             entry_point = ''
 
-        self.set_executables(compiler='gcc -mno-cygwin -O -Wall',
-                             compiler_so='gcc -mno-cygwin -mdll -O -Wall',
-                             compiler_cxx='g++ -mno-cygwin -O -Wall',
+        self.set_executables(compiler='gcc -O -Wall',
+                             compiler_so='gcc -mdll -O -Wall',
+                             compiler_cxx='g++ -O -Wall',
                              linker_exe='gcc -mno-cygwin',
-                             linker_so='%s -mno-cygwin %s %s'
+                             linker_so='%s %s %s'
                                         % (self.linker_dll, shared_option,
                                            entry_point))


One goal I have is to release a script to build hackable-mercurial from
scratch by downloading the components and applying any necessary tweaks.
The current lines in the build script look like this:

    wget -c http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.6/python-2.6.6.msi
    wine msiexec /i python-2.6*.msi /qb
    # fix gcc breakage (gcc, you suck at backward compat)
    sed -i "s/-mno-cygwin //" ../Python26/Lib/distutils/cygwinccompiler.py

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