Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: John Williams <jwilliams AT itee DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
Subject: Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 07:57:04 +1000
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <b6iamt$a6v$1@main.gmane.org>
References: <b6g7vu$mrq$1 AT main DOT gmane DOT org> <200304030319 DOT TAA28656 AT ca DOT sandia DOT gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
In-Reply-To: <200304030319.TAA28656@ca.sandia.gov>

friedman_hill ernest j wrote:
> I think John Williams wrote:
> 
>>It seems not many people build linux kernels under cygwin - I think
>>if they did, this issue I've found would have been reported earlier,
>>because it's the first step in the kernel configuration process.
> 
> 
> OK, I've gotta ask -- WHY do you want to do this in the first place?

Porting uClinux to an embedded target, the toolchain for which runs 
under Cygwin.  I agree it would be somewhat perverse to build an i386 
linux kernel under Cygwin!

Cheers,

John



--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/