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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.

Brian

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