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Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc.
On Feb 5 07:13, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:58:38AM +0100, 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.
> >
> >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.
>
> I'll fix cygwin. I assume that Dave will probably release a gcc
> for testing and I'll make sure that cygwin builds with that.
Thanks, fine with me, as long as still only a i686-pc-cygwin toolchain
is required to build Cygwin.
Corinna
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