Cygport improvements

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:14:42AM +0800, JonY wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am planning to bring mingw-w64 to cygwin. Here are some nits I found 
>when working with it.
>
>* It sets CC=gcc
>While not a major issue, it does present some issues when cross 
>compiling the mingw-w64 CRT.

Why would a Cygwin tool worry about mingw?  We've already removed mingw
support from gcc.  Why add it to something called "cygport"?

>* Implicitly setting --prefix=/usr
>While I understand this is suitable for native builds, perhaps adding 
>some cross compile logic to disable this?

Ditto.  It's intended to make cygwin packages.

I really don't see how making something mingw aware is a topic for
the cygwin mailing list.

cgf

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