On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
No, not really. You can do that, and I still use the Linux cross
compiler to build Cygwin, but we don't really *have* to bootstrap
anymore.
<snip>
$ cygport cygwin.cygport download prep compile install package
or
$ cygport cygwin.cygport download allmostall
That should do it.
Before I got this reply I tried native 64->64 ./configure && make &&
make install (roughly speaking) out-of-tree against cvs and... it worked
like a champ! One quirk -- by default it builds as
x86_64-unknown-cygwin, whereas iirc the 32-bit equivalent builds as
*-pc-cygwin... after supplying host/build/target configure arguments and
/usr prefix, everything seemed fully cooked at a glance.
Doing it the cygport way sounds even better, though, since then I get
setup64.exe-based deployment, autorebase, and whatever postinstall
magic, avoiding the old make install / crash / make install ritual.
< party-hat / confetti emoticon >
-gmt
hoping against hope he managed to post this successfully exactly one time
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