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Re: Documentation on building a cross-compiler for the cygwin target
On 26 October 2010 18:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:43:38PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>I want to make another pass through the Cygwin/X documentation to
>>revise it. ÂCurrently in the Contributor's Guide, there is an ancient
>>section on cross-compiling the X server (which in itself needs
>>attention), which includes instructions on building a cross-compiler.
>>
>>I want to remove those instructions, as there isn't anything
>>particularly specific to X about them, but since it is the first google
>>result when searching for "cygwin crosscompiler", I feel I should try
>>to preserve the small amount of useful information it contains
>>somewhere.
>
> FWIW, I don't think there's any reason to keep cross-compiler
> information in the Cygwin/X documentation. ÂIt doesn't make a lot of
> sense to me that Cygwin/X would be a place to look for that.
The patch is against winsup/doc/programming.sgml.
Andy