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Re: [patch]: Decouple cygwin building from in-tree mingw/w32api building
On Oct 22 08:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:29:13AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Oct 22 00:09, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >Yeah, since the changes to the configury separate Cygwin from mingw and
> >w32api, staying in src/winsup is no problem at all. I always thought
> >mingw is part of the src tree for gcc bootstrap reasons.
>
> winsup is not part of the gcc source tree in SVN. So, if it is
> necessary for bootstrapping it must have to be pulled in separately
> anyway.
>
> And, if we're talking about moving cygwin entirely to w64api then I
> don't see how it could be part of the gcc bootstrap.
I meant bootstrap of a mingw toolchain. I don't know. I just thought
this was the original reason.
Corinna
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