Re: cygwin 1.1.7

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 04:29 PM 1/8/2001, David Feustel wrote:
>I'm actually already starting on this path. I just installed 
>Redhat Linux 7 with the intent of configuring a crosscompiler
>for ARM. My first problem is that I can't login with the
>1st or 2nd (non-root) user ids I created during the install.
>Has something about the non-root login changed since 6.2?
>I'm pretty sure I'm typing in the right passwords.


I didn't have trouble with this for either Red Hat Linux 6.2 or 7.0 so I 
can't say.  This ain't the best list for these types of questions anyway!;-)


>Is there a way to unpack RPMs on windows?


Yes, there is at least one port of RPM via Cygwin.  Check out the pointers
at www.cygwin.com to ported software and related sites or check the email
archives.


>Dave Feustel
>Fort Wayne, Indiana
>1-219-483-1857
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
>Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 2:10 PM
>Subject: Re: cygwin 1.1.7
>
>
> > You mean what are the chances that the current pool of volunteers maintaining 
> > and improving Cygwin doing this?  My guess is pretty unlikely.  It doesn't 
> > seem to be a high priority.  Cross-compilers for other platforms have been
> > built though, using Cygwin's gcc as a base.  It should be possible to
> > kick off this activity yourself if you're so inclined.
> > 
> > >
> > >What are the chances of Cygwin creating a cross-compiler
> > >toolchain to generate code for (and eventually migrate to)
> > >WinCE?



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