X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:24:43 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: FW: FLTK versions in Cygwin [was: Re: units: update, FHS compliance] Message-ID: <20100126152443.GA5307@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A208B26371A8 AT NIHMLBX02 DOT nih DOT gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A208B26371A8@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:14:44AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:38 AM >>On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>>I don't much like it, but that's reality. (...why did Cygnus fund the >>>early development, in the first place? To have a windows-hosted build >>>environment for xxx-target compilers: in this case, xxx = native-win32) >> >>Cygnus funded the work to provide windows *hosted* cross compilers for >>other architectures. Targetting *native* targeted win32 did not come >>until a couple into the life of the project. > >references: > > See '4. "Harnessing the Power of the Internet"' on > Don't know if you're arguing with me or agreeing with me but I actually helped in the creation of that paper. I even presented parts of it in Paris to a bunch of non-English-speaking people at one point. Unfortunately, the referenced page mixes the term "native" to mean "runs on windows" vs. "runs without cygwin". The initial goal of the Cygwin project was *always* to produce binaries which run in the Cygwin environment. The ability to produce objects which didn't rely on Cygwin came after the project had been around for a couple of years. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple