On Feb 5 11:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I'm somewhat concerned about this step, though. How is the configure in > winsup supposed to work, if you suddenly need two compilers to build > Cygwin? The top-level configury only takes one target, not two. If you > only have a linux-x-cygwin cross compiler, your build suddenly fails if > you don't have a linux-x-mingw compiler as well. > > So, to build Cygwin from scratch, you first have to build two > compilers and two binutils. This sounds not feasible to me.
Oh and, not to forget the non-obvious: How do you do a canadian cross, say, linux-x-cygwin-mips-elf within one build tree? Whatever gets changed, this should still work. > Or, the configury in winsup must be changed so that you can build > everything with the i686-pc-cygwin compiler. This should be possible, > shouldn't it? It's just a question of using the right start files and > import libs, isn't it? > > I would like to have this cleared before we do this crucial step. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
