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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:27:06 -0400
From: "Wang Yiping" <ypwangandy AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gcc-3.4.4 compile dietlibc error on cygwin
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Hi, Brian:



>>It's not really clear what you're trying to accomplish here.  If you're
>>trying to natively compile this lib then that's almost certainly going
>>to fail, as dietlibc supports the linux kernel only.  (Just like you
>>can't just compile glibc for windows and run it -- if this were possible
>>then there would be no need for Cygwin at all.)

Yes, I was confused before. I just wanted to get mkinitrd run on
cygwin to generate a image for the modules that I have cross-compiled
kernel on cygwin.  Now I know I need to crosscompile the dietlibc and
nash and copy it to the image.

>>Brian

Thanks for your reply!

Yiping

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