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Re: next net release preview
- To: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: next net release preview
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:28:44 -0500
- Cc: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda at jaist dot ac dot jp>, cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <s1sk8jshuxh.fsf@jaist.ac.jp> <200002261927.NAA18578@hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:27:47PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp> writes:
>>
>> > The idea is that we're trying to empower the community, rather
>> > than the community relying on Cygnus (er, Red Hat) to do all
>> > the work (snip).
>>
>> Neverthless, I hope that Cygnus/Red Hat defines definitely the
>> reasonable policy about packages, such as the prefix directory,
>> the host type name (i686-pc-cygwin32 or i686-pc-cygwin ?), and
>> so on.
>
>The intent is to make all of these package use the same arch prefix
>-- i686-pc-cygwin -- and one purpose of the "preview" is to flush
>out problems such as this.
>
>Do please report all the inconsistencies so we can fix those.
>
>Someone already mentioned that binutils is using the wrong one, and
>I'll rebuild with the correct one this weekend.
DJ, could you do the same thing with gdb, please?
cgf