On Feb 5 07:13, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:58:38AM +0100, 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. > > > >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. > > I'll fix cygwin. I assume that Dave will probably release a gcc > for testing and I'll make sure that cygwin builds with that.
Thanks, fine with me, as long as still only a i686-pc-cygwin toolchain is required to build Cygwin. 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/
