Removing cygwin32-*, cygwin64-*
Thomas Wolff
towo@towo.net
Sun Feb 14 12:16:00 GMT 2016
Am 09.02.2016 um 23:48 schrieb Andrew Schulman:
>> Is anyone using the cygwin32- and/or cygwin64-* cross-compiling
>> toolchain for anything besides cross-building cygwin itself? I would
>> like to remove most of these from the distro if at all possible.
> FWIW, I've tried to cross-compile some of my packages between i386 and x86_64,
> and it's never worked. The build always fails for one reason or another that I
> can't solve. So I gave up and no, I don't use them any more.
For a package maintainer, it's not only easier, but also useful for
testing, to simply install cygwin-32 and -64 in parallel.
No need for cross-building.
What about the mingw cross-compiling packages? Are they any good for
(never tried)?
Thomas
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