Re: [PATCH v2] Rename without-mingw-progs to with-cross-bootstrap

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr  2 10:56, Peter Foley wrote:
> Rename without-mingw-progs to with-cross-bootstrap, since it now
> disables additional checks that are problematic for cross-compilers.
> 
> When cross-compiling a toolchain 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 making the
> --with-cross-bootstrap configure option skip cygwin's configure checks
> for valid mingw-crt libraries. Cygwin will still properly link against
> these libraries if they exist, but this allows configure to succeed even
> if the libraries have not been built yet.
> 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.
> 
> winsup/ChangeLog
> configure.ac: rename without-mingw-progs option to with-cross-bootstrap
> configure: regenerate
> winsup/cygserver/ChangeLog
> configure.ac: don't check AC_WINDOWS_LIBS when using with-cross-bootstrap
> configure: regenerate
> winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
> configure.ac: don't check AC_WINDOWS_LIBS when using with-cross-bootstrap
> configure: regenerate

Patch applied.


Thanks,
Corinna

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