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Subject: Re: Cygwin GNU tools v's GNUPro native tools
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:35:00 -0000
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From: Syd Polk <spolk@baritoneconsulting.com>
To: "Jordan" <jordan.howarth@cmis.csiro.au>, <sourcenav@sources.redhat.com>
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Jordan wrote:

>
>Hi all,
>
>What is meant by GNUPro (native) in the toolchain options of the build 
>setting window?? Does this mean that you cannot use the GNU tools
>supplied in the Cygwin distribution with SN but instead need to
>purchase the GNUPro toolkit native for windows?
>
>I can understand this from a marketing exercise but logically how can
>this be? If SN goes looking for gcc via the PATH variable in windows
>the same way it does under Linux, why would it not be satisfied with
>C:\cygwin\bin\gcc?
>
>Confused as ever?
>
>J.

There is no difference. The only thing is that some versions of gdb don't 
support the command line option that SN needs to run (--external-editor), 
whereas the GnuPro version does.