X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_YG,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BD5008E.5040701@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:55:10 -0500 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygport-0.9.82-1 References: <4BD4A3F6.2060701@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <4BD4A3F6.2060701@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 2010-04-25 15:20, Charles Wilson wrote: > Yaakov, what sorts of things would be necessary to enable cygport to > build cygwin packages from a cross environment? (And would such support > ever be something you'd be interested in?) The thought has occasionally occurred to me, but as usual the question is in the implementation. You raise some good points, and there are additional issues as well. Unfortunately, my personal circumstances don't permit me to give this discussion the attention it deserves at this time. I have added this to TODO and hopefully sometime later I will be able to address this at length. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple