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Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc.
On Feb 5 11:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I'm somewhat concerned about this step, though. How is the configure in
> winsup supposed to work, if you suddenly need two compilers to build
> Cygwin? The top-level configury only takes one target, not two. If you
> only have a linux-x-cygwin cross compiler, your build suddenly fails if
> you don't have a linux-x-mingw compiler as well.
>
> So, to build Cygwin from scratch, you first have to build two
> compilers and two binutils. This sounds not feasible to me.
Oh and, not to forget the non-obvious: How do you do a canadian cross,
say, linux-x-cygwin-mips-elf within one build tree? Whatever gets
changed, this should still work.
> Or, the configury in winsup must be changed so that you can build
> everything with the i686-pc-cygwin compiler. This should be possible,
> shouldn't it? It's just a question of using the right start files and
> import libs, isn't it?
>
> I would like to have this cleared before we do this crucial step.
Corinna
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