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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:58:38 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:52:01PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jon Leichter" <jon AT symas DOT com>
>
>>AC_CHECK_TOOL checks for tools with a ${host} prefix.  AC_CHECK_PROG
>>does not.
>>
>>In my opinion, this serves as another example that one cannot count on
>>a configure script being up-to-date.
>
>Ouchies.  I agree - yet another reason for cygwin ports to be updated
>by the maintainer :}.

If I am reading this correctly, this is not really a cygwin issue.  It's
a cross-build issue, right?

I build all of the stuff that I support on linux.  For most packages, I
have to do a lot of extra stuff (like set CC, LD, AR, RANLIB on the
command line) to get things built.

cgf

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