Cygwin 1.7 release (was Re: The library or libraries will be delivered[...])

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Jun 4 18:00:00 GMT 2009


On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:58:11PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:45:32PM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>>Yes, but it's a lower priority to me than getting the base system solid
>>>first.  Also, it needs re-arranging w32api and the mingw libs into a
>>>real cross-$prefix/$target, rather than putting them in subdirs of
>>>$prefix/lib and $prefix/include as we currently do.
>>
>>I'm more than happy to make any packaging adjustments to the w32api and
>>mingw-runtime packages, just let me know what I need to do.
>>
>>>PTC for the gcc-4 cygport file if you want to help! (I was planning to
>>>make the same one serve for both builds by defining a bash shell
>>>variable to tell it whether to build cygwin or mingw compilers.)
>>
>>I'll take a look at it.
>
>Chris, how would you and the other MinGW developers feel about moving
>mingw and w32api somewhere else?

Just to be clear: By "somewhere else" I meant into their own
repositories, not away from sourceware.

cgf



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