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Subject: Re: Cygwin under Wine?
From: Thomas L Roche <tlroche AT us DOT ibm DOT com>
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:39:16 -0500
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At 07:33 PM 3/25/2004, Tom Roche wrote:
>>>> While sounding out Cygwin users in my organization, I got the
>>>> comment:

>>>>> If Cygwin would run under Wine, I'd be a very happy person, we
>>>>> wouldn't need real Windows machines for builds, and we could
>>>>> consign all our Windows build machines, their ITSC compliance,
>>>>> and the continual stream of updates and security fixes to the
>>>>> deepest pits of hell.

Larry Hall 03/25/2004 07:45:39 PM:
>>> I'm not sure I see the logic in the comment from which the
>>> question stems. If the goal is to avoid using Windows platforms
>>> for builds, why isn't a cross-compiler targeting Windows enough?

At 07:59 PM 3/25/2004, Tom Roche wrote:
>> For one thing, in these modern times, building usually also
>> involves some smoke-, unit- or function-test (i.e. "build
>> verification test").

Larry Hall 03/25/2004 08:19:15 PM:
> So are you saying that it's not a requirement that your build
> environment running under Wine be able to run smoke/unit/function
> tests but it would be for a cross-compiler environment would?

No, I'm saying that the ability to run BVT tools/processes IS a
requirement for the build environment: compilation is only (an
increasingly small) part of build. (I'm also only guessing at the
original source's requirements, which are not mine.)


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