On May 18 14:03, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > And the problem is that libiberty is assuming that it *knows* what
> > functions newlib provides, so that it doesn't need to check
> > directly.  This is just broken...
> 
> Historically, cygwin was built using libiberty and newlib, so you did
> not have a runtime at the time you were building libiberty, because
> you hadn't built newlib yet.
> 
> In a combined tree, target-libiberty is still built before
> target-newlib, so the problem exists there too.
> 
> At this point, though, I'm tempted to say "there's no such thing as a
> target libiberty" and rip all the target-libiberty rules out, and let
> newlib-hosted targets autodetect the host-libiberty.  That is, if
> Cygwin doesn't need a target-libiberty any more?

Cygwin doesn't need libiberty anymore since 2007.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat

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