Re: mingw check hung

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>>>> Are we *sure*, btw, that this is actually a mingw issue, and not
>>>> something else in the environment? Could you try a MSVC compiled
>>>> binary
>>>> on the same machine?
>>>>
>>> My MSVC buildfarm animal runs on the same machine, and does not suffer
>>> the same problem.
>>>
>>
>> Meh. Stupid mingw :-)
>>
>> So how about we #ifdef out that NULL setting based on
>> WIN32_ONLY_COMPILER, does that seem reasonable?
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> The odd thing is that it doesn't seem to affect Vista, only XP.
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> Anyway, yes, I think that would be OK. How do we then test to see if
> the original problem is still fixed?
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>

Further proof that this is a Windows version issue: I took the problem
build from my XP and put it on my Vista box: the same build that causes
a problem on XP runs perfectly on Vista. Go figure. Maybe we need a
version check at runtime? That would be icky.

cheers

andrew