Re: crosstool and cygwin

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Yeah, but what a pain.  When will the libtool people get their
act together and come out with a version that supports Cygwin?
- Dan

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> Cygwin comes with a Cygwin-compatible Libtool - re-libtoolizing is the best
> way to go to get a proper Libtool.
>
> rlc
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 12:08:54AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> > Lots of people have asked whether crosstool could be
> > used on Cygwin.  I haven't tried it yet, but tonight I
> > got a copy of "Hacking your Tivo", and it happens to
> > come with a script for building a gcc-3.2 under Cygwin.
> > One of the strange things it does is patch all instances
> > of libtools to work around a bug; it seems even the latest
> > libtools is not compatible with cygwin!  Setting IFS to ~
> > as libtools does causes problems because on Cygwin, one
> > often finds ~ in directory and filenames.
> > (See e.g.
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=100058&group_id=25
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/libtool@gnu.org/msg03746.html)
> >
> > A script that builds a MIPS gcc for TiVo series 2 machines is at
> > http://dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27280&highlight=cygwin+compiler
> > http://dealdatabase.com/forum/attachment.php?s=8b335111c8c546232ec5a16cc86dc8a1&postid=115275
> > It can't build a glibc, though, so it's probably not really going
> > to be a big help.
> >
> > But (mostly as a reminder for me when I finally look at
> > cygwin and crosstool), here are a few excerpts from that script:
> >
> >
> > # Patch ~ into ? in sources for binutils/libtool
> > declare -a files
> > files=(binutils-$BINUTILS_VER/ltconfig binutils-$BINUTILS_VER/ltmain.sh \
> >  binutils-$BINUTILS_VER/ltmain.sh.dso binutils-$BINUTILS_VER/ltcf-c.sh \
> >  binutils-$BINUTILS_VER/ltcf-cxx.sh binutils-$BINUTILS_VER/ltcf-gcj.sh)
> > for f in ${files[*]}; do
> >  echo $f
> >  test -f $f.old || mv $f $f.old
> >  sed 's/\([^\\]\)~/\1?/g' < $f.old > $f
> > done
...

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Dan Kegel
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