Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/08/28/10:53:34
Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
>
> However I must admit that, having read the original posting again, it does
> not positively says what is in the binary PRC-tools cygwin package; we just
> understand the term differently it seems.
I use PRC-Tools regularly, so let me try to add some light to this
heated discussion. :)
I mainly use the Linux version of PRC-Tools, but the last time I used
the Windows version, it assumed that it was being installed into a
working Cygwin environment. I'm sure this hasn't changed -- the
PRC-Tools people are only trying to change their installation
mechanism. Since they assume a working Cygwin environment, setup.exe
should exist on users' systems, so trying to make it flexible enough to
go and fetch PRC-Tools is a reasonable thing to attempt.
The binary tools are built as patched versions of the native ones, and
they do depend on cygwin1.dll, so there is a GPL issue here, but the
PRC-Tools project is not re-distributing anything from Cygwin itself.
It only uses Cygwin code in the distributed binaries.
There should be no file conflicts, because the PRC-Tools are built with
entirely different prefixes. It's a cross-compiler living on the same
system as the native compiler that built it.
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