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Re: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin


On 2013-06-19 12:57, Warren Young wrote:
Not all packages are cross-compiler-compatible.

Is that another way of saying that not all packages use autotools? :)

autotools can certainly make cross-compiling easier than most other build systems, but it's not a guarantee either. For instance, anything that requires in-tree compiled executables to run (e.g. AC_RUN_IFELSE configure tests, GObject Introspection generation, etc.) requires either workarounds, or simply cannot be cross-compiled.

You're not talking about anything different than the sort of thing
Cygwin package maintainers go through, sometimes needing to arm-twist
odd build systems to behave according to cygport's expectations?

I think you mean Cygwin's expectations?


Yaakov


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