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Re: crossbuild cygwin-1.7.6-1 on linux x64
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:12:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: crossbuild cygwin-1.7.6-1 on linux x64
- References: <1282736792.3228.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <4C758389.9080608@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4C759977.8050501@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:30:15PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>cgf said:
>> You know that "c++ ones do not" is not much of a bug report, right?
>
>Sure. It was just meant as a marker that "here's what I did, but it is
>obviously wrong".
>
>> I must now have genetic knowledge of building cross-compilers because
>> I don't see why everyone thinks this is such a big deal, requiring so
>> much discussion.
>
>Well, that's what I thought, too, since I've built them for other
>$targets many times, with no problems. But...for whatever reason...it
>seems that cygwin is, as usual, special. :-(
Even though it began its life beinb built solely as a cross-build
environment and was meant to be cross-compiled even without a sysroot...
cgf