[PATCH 4/5] Don't build utils/lsaauth when cross compiling.

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Tue Mar 22 01:49:00 GMT 2016


On 2016-03-21 15:00, Peter Foley wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Again, I'm cross compiling all the time since I build Cygwin on Linux
>> for development and package building, and I'm certianly not the only
>> person doing that.  This is the default case.  Not building utils and
>> lsaauth is the exception.  Therefore this scenario should be handled
>> explicitely by a configure flag, not the other way around.
>
> Alright, I'll rework this patch to that effect.

I really don't see the point of this.  I maintain the pseudo-official 
cross toolchains for Cygwin, and I just remove what is not needed for 
cross-compiling from the DESTDIR after install.  This is also a fairly 
common step when building library packages for cross-compiler toolchains.

-- 
Yaakov



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