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Re: Documentation on building a cross-compiler for the cygwin target


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 06:15:19PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>On 26 October 2010 18:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:43:38PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>I want to make another pass through the Cygwin/X documentation to
>>>revise it. ??Currently in the Contributor's Guide, there is an ancient
>>>section on cross-compiling the X server (which in itself needs
>>>attention), which includes instructions on building a cross-compiler.
>>>
>>>I want to remove those instructions, as there isn't anything
>>>particularly specific to X about them, but since it is the first google
>>>result when searching for "cygwin crosscompiler", I feel I should try
>>>to preserve the small amount of useful information it contains
>>>somewhere.
>>
>> FWIW, I don't think there's any reason to keep cross-compiler
>> information in the Cygwin/X documentation. ??It doesn't make a lot of
>> sense to me that Cygwin/X would be a place to look for that.
>
>The patch is against winsup/doc/programming.sgml.

I didn't look at the patch.  But, ok, same thing here.  If we make it a
document then we have to support it.  I'd rather not support people's
attempts to cross-build cygwin.

cgf


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