crosstoll-ng 1.15.2 build still failing on Cygwin

[Yann E. MORIN]

Ian, All,

On Thursday 12 July 2012 14:26:52 Ian Linsdell wrote:
> The crosstool-ng web site claims that 1.15.2  plays nicely with Cygwin
> now but it fails to build.
> 
> I found someone else already submitted the below patch but it has not
> been incorporated into crosstool-ng 1.15.2  for some reason.

Because it breaks on non-Cygwin.

> I am being bombarded with people asking why crosstool-ng is failing to
> build on Cygwin since there is a lot demand to cross compile from
> Windows(Cygwin) to the 'Raspberry Pi' board.

Then tell them to switch to Linux! ;-)

Seriously, doing emnbedded Linux development from a non-Linux system is
asking for trouble.

First and foremost, doing embedded-Linux without prior knowledge of the
simpler native case is like trying to fly a 747 without having enough
flying hours on the much simpler Cesna.

Second, many tools used to do Linux development really work well only
on a Linux System. Cygwin might be a good substitute for some work, but
does not really plat nicely in such cases as embedded (and thus cross)
development.

> Please incorporate this patch so that we don't have to fix it over
> again in the next release of crosstool-ng.

No, it breaks the build on native Linux systems. As I do not do Cygwin
(I seldom have access to a Windows machine), I can not really test.
If you want it to work, then you have to help come up with a sane patch.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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