On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:57:59AM +0100, Gabriel SOUBIES wrote: >I am still not able to build Cygwin from the latest CVS sources... >But anyway, that's only a part of the problem. My boss wants to be sure >there is no malicious code in the Cygwin distribution I use. >So he's telling me to rebuild it from scratch from the CVS sources. >His logic is that since we can look into the sources and check that there is >no malicious code in it, if we build a version from these sources, we can >assume they contain no trojan or whatever. >But if I understood correctly, I must use Cygwin to rebuild the sources. >When I told him that, he went all mad and told me that he could not trust my >version of Cygwin to rebuild these sources, since it could 'insert' >malicious code without us knowing it even though the sources are perfectly >clean. >So my question is: Is it possible to rebuild Cygwin without Cygwin?
You can build Cygwin on linux or any other system on which you can create a cross compiler. There is a mailing list devoted to cross compiler issues: crossgcc YOUKNOWWHAT sourceware LITTLEDOTTYTHING org . There are also undoubtedly many sites out there available for the mere cost of a google search. But, then, why should your boss trust me to be giving you the right information? I might be maliciously steering you towards corrupted code which was specially intended to subvert your security... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
