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Ren=E9 Berber wrote:
> Bob Rossi wrote:
> [snip]
>> Here's the full story. I'm trying to build apr. It needs to be built
>> with mingw in order to have thread support. It specifically disables
>> thread support with cygwin.
>>
>> So, instead of getting the mingw
>> environment, I'd like to use the cygwin environment cause I my build
>> system builds many other packages.
>>
>> I can't figure out how to get past this problem. Any help at all would
>> be greatly appreciated.=20
> [snip]
>=20
> One option is to do a cross build:
>=20
> $ ./configure --build=3Di686-pc-cygwin --host=3Di686-pc-mingw32
> [...]
> Checking for Threads...
> [...]
> APR will use threads
> [...]

Oops! configure bombs out before finishing, with :

checking whether setpgrp takes no argument... configure: error: cannot check
setpgrp when cross compiling

Well as I said, that was just one option... the other that comes to mind is=
 to
see why apr disables threads if configured for Cygwin, and change that to e=
nable
them.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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