Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000619112549.00b5bc10@mailhost> X-Sender: paulson AT mailhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:35:16 -0700 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: John Paulson Subject: Kudos. Cygwin 1.1+ _rocks_ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed As a counterpoint to the occasional complaints about how cygwin doesn't work and how this is broken and why don't you fix it, et yadda-yadda cetera, I'd like to say just _how_ much better 1.1 is than b20. We do cross development, using gcc under cygwin and targeting a prodigious panoply of processors. Prior to this latest net release, we had to build the various versions of gcc, gdb and binutils under linux. With this latest version of cygwin, "./configure --target=xyz; make" _works_! Unless you've built cross tools, you cannot imagine what a win this is. Prior to this latest release building a tool chain consumed a huge amount of time and disk space (for the linux->win32, linux->target and win32->target builds of gcc &c). So thanks. cygwin is improving over time. (Note for the curious: the builds of the toolchain are done under Win95. Yeah, we get the "could not fork" error every now and then, but that's livable). ---------------------------- John Paulson PowerTV, Inc. Tel: 408/777-4769 Fax: 408/777-0176 mailto:paulson AT powertv DOT com http://www.powertv.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com