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Re: Cygport improvements
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:05:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cygport improvements
- References: <4C256292.1060907@users.sourceforge.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:14:42AM +0800, JonY wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am planning to bring mingw-w64 to cygwin. Here are some nits I found
>when working with it.
>
>* It sets CC=gcc
>While not a major issue, it does present some issues when cross
>compiling the mingw-w64 CRT.
Why would a Cygwin tool worry about mingw? We've already removed mingw
support from gcc. Why add it to something called "cygport"?
>* Implicitly setting --prefix=/usr
>While I understand this is suitable for native builds, perhaps adding
>some cross compile logic to disable this?
Ditto. It's intended to make cygwin packages.
I really don't see how making something mingw aware is a topic for
the cygwin mailing list.
cgf
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