On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:18:16PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Chris Game wrote: >>>I can assure you that many of us cross compile Cygwin on Linux >>>regularly... >> >>Er, why? > >Because as I said it's significantly faster, and because the developers >tend to have Linux machines around anyway because of >work/preference/etc.
That and building a cygwin dll to use in a cygwin environment is somewhat problematic. Transferring a new dll to a windows machine and then switching to the windows machine to test it means that you can break the dll and still recover without too much effort. 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/
