From: steve@icarus.icarus.com (Stephen Williams)
Subject: cygwin32 on alpha under FX!32
15 Mar 1997 08:31:45 -0800
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For grins, I decided to try running the various tools on NT/alpha under
an emulator. This would be a means of bootstraping, namely loading the
working 386 compiler, using it to configure and compile an alpha-NT
compiler, then (still running under FX!32) run the alpha compiler on
the configured code to get alpha-native binaries.

Not a chance. Basic programs work, but forking just doesn't and most
everything of use in the GNU toolchain does forks. too bad.

So the next question becomes, "Can I cross compile from my Linux/SPARC
the whole kit, or at least the compiler?"

By hook or by crook, I'm gonna get this to work.

-- 
Steve Williams
steve@icarus.com
steve@picturel.com

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.  But I have promises to keep,
And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."


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