For the most part, I agree with you. Autoconf and Libtool should be fixed. The motto of the groups seems to be: "patches gratefully accepted". Thus, unless you, me, or someone else that uses Cygwin GCC for MinGW wants to make these changes, I wouldn't count on them coming around any time soon.
One other point: AFAIK, the cross-compiling feature of autoconf, i.e. --host, --build, --target, is not an automated feature. That is, it's up to the configure.in script writer to use these switches appropriately. I have ran many configure scripts in the Cygwin environment. I have just about never seen a configure script use these switches correctly (where "correctly" is based on the definition of these switches in the autoconf documentation). Thus, for this issue, you can't look for a "fix" in autoconf. It's about configure.in script writers doing the right thing. This, of course, means that there must be a separate "fix" for each project that is not doing the right thing. Of course, if a script that you're using is coming out of a OpenSource project, then again, one is free to supply patches... Jon > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of J. Henning Schwentner > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 5:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > Thanks for your quick help, this works nice! > > But, it is a bit difficult. I think ideally configure should detect > --host=mingw32 --build=cygwin and in this case should add --mno-cygwin to > CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS (and do something to fix libtool). > > I am not sure if this is a bit off topic, maybe this sould be > posted to the > autoconf list. > > Regards, > Henning > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
