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RE: [toplevel, Cygwin] Don't warn if both newlib and winsup are missing
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <kcook at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "'Zack Weinberg'" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:53:05 +0100
- Subject: RE: [toplevel, Cygwin] Don't warn if both newlib and winsup are missing
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelley Cook
> Sent: 12 October 2004 18:42
> --- Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> > Kelley Cook writes:
> >
> >> In July a patch was added to the Cygwin's toplevel that turns off
> >> newlib if winsup isn't also present.
> >
> > Hang on, is this even the right thing? Aren't there
> embedded targets
> > that use newlib but not winsup?
>
> Sure there are.
>
> But this hunk of configure code only applied to target *-*-cygwin*,
> which will not build newlib without winsup.
>
> See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-06/msg01388.html for when
> this was added.
>
> KC
This is a very strange way round to express the dependencies if you ask
me.
Cygwin depends on winsup, winsup depends on newlib. Well, I guess if
newlib won't build in cygwin configuration without winsup being present then
I guess its a circular dependency. Still sounds a bit strange to me though.
cheers,
DaveK
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