X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:34:09 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc. Message-ID: <20070205123409.GF27843@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <020d01c748b4$62d8b170$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20070205030939.GB24653@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20070205105838.GA9455@calimero.vinschen.de> <20070205121336.GC2947@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070205121336.GC2947@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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/