Re: Documentation on building a cross-compiler for the cygwin target

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:43:38PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>I want to make another pass through the Cygwin/X documentation to
>revise it.  Currently in the Contributor's Guide, there is an ancient
>section on cross-compiling the X server (which in itself needs
>attention), which includes instructions on building a cross-compiler.
>
>I want to remove those instructions, as there isn't anything
>particularly specific to X about them, but since it is the first google
>result when searching for "cygwin crosscompiler", I feel I should try
>to preserve the small amount of useful information it contains
>somewhere.

FWIW, I don't think there's any reason to keep cross-compiler
information in the Cygwin/X documentation.  It doesn't make a lot of
sense to me that Cygwin/X would be a place to look for that.

cgf