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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:36:40 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030216-1
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:26:12PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>You can work around this with wrapper scripts (e.g. 'mgcc' contains 
>'exec gcc -mno-cygwin $*') but that's non standard.

However, it could easily be standard.  I could include a i686-pc-mingw32-gcc
and a i686-pc-mingw-ld in the gcc distribution.  And, I could also alias
all of the i686-pc-cygwin-* tools to i686-pc-mingw32-*.  That would provide
the equivalent of a cross compilation environment for cygwin.

Then you just have to say

configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=i686-pc-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-cygwin

and you bypass the arbitrary distinction of having a whole build system,
based on cygwin which exists just so that uname returns 'mingw', or whatever.

(Yes, I know that MSYS does other things, too, but this does get rid of
the requirement of using MSYS just to make it easy to use autoconf/libtool)

cgf

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