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28.0.50; Fix native compilation on Cygwin

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Message #151 received at 50666 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: Stromeko <at> nexgo.de, 50666 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, akrl <at> sdf.org
Subject: Re: bug#50666: 28.0.50; Fix native compilation on Cygwin
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 08:54:50 +0300

> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:22:28 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
> Cc: Stromeko <at> nexgo.de, 50666 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, akrl <at> sdf.org
> 
> 32-bit Cygwin has just been demoted to a third-class citizen.  Cygwin 3.3.0 was 
> released this morning, with a deprecation notice that it is the last major 
> version supporting 32-bit installations.  In view of this, I don't want to put 
> any energy into supporting native compilation on 32-bit Cygwin, and I doubt if 
> Achim does either.
> 
> Eli, what do you think of the attached (assuming Achim agrees)?

Assuming this decision of the Cygwin developers is final, I don't
mind.  But why do we want to depend on an environment variable for
enabling the 32-bit build? why not a configure-time command-line
option?

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