On Mar 31 12:33, Peter Foley wrote: > When cross-compiling a toolchan targeting cygwin, building cygwin1.dll > requires libgcc. > However, building libgcc requires the cygwin headers to be > installed. > Configuring cygwin requries the mingw-crt libraries, which require the > cygwin headers to be installed. > Work around this circular dependency by adding a > --without-library-checks configure option to skip cygwin's configure checks > for valid mingw-crt libraries. > Since the mingw-crt libraries only require the cygwin headers to be > installed, this allows us to successfully configure cygwin so that we > can only install the headers without trying to build any > libraries.
Can we please fold the --without-mingw-progs and --without-library-checks into a single option? Given the task is basically the same, the option name should reflect something along the lines of "cross-build", "bootstrap", and "stage 1", IMO. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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