Re: [PATCH 1/3] Detect GDB is in cygwin

[Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>]

On 07/29/2013 11:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> However, I'm not sure you need to probe NtQueryInformationFile at
> configure time, as long as GDB probes for it at run time.  That is the
> usual way of using APIs that might not be available on older Windows
> systems.
>
> Probing at compile time is worse than at run time, because it assumes
> that GDB will run on the same machine where it was built, which is a
> bad assumption, especially on Windows, where people like to install
> precompiled binaries.

I am using AC_TRY_COMPILE to compile the code which probes 
NtQueryInformationFile, to make sure the code can be compiled 
successfully.  However, the code probes NtQueryInformationFile doesn't 
run on configure time.

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Yao (éå)