RE: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030216-1

["Norman Vine" <nhv at cape dot com>]

Christopher Faylor writes:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:26:12PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >You can work around this with wrapper scripts (e.g. 'mgcc' contains 
> >'exec gcc -mno-cygwin $*') but that's non standard.
> 
> However, it could easily be standard.  I could include a 
> i686-pc-mingw32-gcc
> and a i686-pc-mingw-ld in the gcc distribution.  And, I could also alias
> all of the i686-pc-cygwin-* tools to i686-pc-mingw32-*.  That 
> would provide
> the equivalent of a cross compilation environment for cygwin.
> 
> Then you just have to say
> 
> configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=i686-pc-mingw32 
> --build=i686-pc-cygwin
> 
> and you bypass the arbitrary distinction of having a whole build system,
> based on cygwin which exists just so that uname returns 'mingw', 
> or whatever.
> 
> (Yes, I know that MSYS does other things, too, but this does get rid of
> the requirement of using MSYS just to make it easy to use 
> autoconf/libtool)

I use a slightly different technique

I maintain a separate /$MINGW development tree within my $CYGWIN tree
and make sure that $MINGW/bin comes before /bin in $PATH then 
./configure --prefix=$MINGW --host=mingw  
seems to work fine from a bash shell

Norman

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