> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:16 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Thus... returning to the ORIGINAL topic of this thread... I had > recommended > > the following to the OP: > > > > $ env CC=mgcc ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 > > > > My new understanding of switches gives me new perspective. 'build' and > > 'target' will pickup the value of 'host'. In this context, you're > telling > > configure that the host == build == MinGW. I've said before that MinGW > in > > Cygwin is a loose cross-compile. So, it seems to me that this > configuration > > is ok, especially since 'host' binaries CAN successfully run in the > 'build' > > environment. > > Nope. because an autoconf script for mingw32 'build' may expect cp to be > 'copy', sh to be cmd.exe and further stuff that will break or misbehave > on cygwin.
Point taken. > $ env CC=mgcc ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-cygwin > is acceptable. Ok. A mixture of my solution and the explicit addition of the --build switch. I think I can live with that. > > We agreed that as of today that 'build', if not specified, gets the > value of > > 'host'. Even if this were to change, i.e. 'build' gets checked for > > automatically, my solution STILL works. In this case, it would be a > cross > > compile, but it should still work. > > See above why it doesn't. mingw != cygwin :}. If 'build' WERE to be tested automatically, independent to 'host', it would come up with 'i686-pc-cygwin'. Thus, we'd effectively end up with the same line you specified above. So that does work, right? Or are you trying to confuse me again??? :) > > This leads one to draw the following conclusions: > > > ... > > This whole thread went off on a tangent suggesting that my solution > was > > wrong. So tell me. If my solution works more often than the "proper" > one, > > how is it wrong? > > Well.. I came in the thread late, so I get to say, 'huh, what, waddya > mean?'. Yea, yea, yea... everybody's got an excuse... Jon -- 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/
