Hackable Mercurial: linker_exe and no-cygwin

[Eduard-Cristian Stefan]

On 2012-04-23 21:58, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 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
>

Maybe you should search for " -mno-cygwin" instead of "-mno-cygwin ",
that way the linker_exe line would be catched.
Or simply search for "-mno-cygwin", an extra space should be harmless here.

Have a nice day,
   Eduard