Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Dave Korn" To: , "'Zack Weinberg'" Cc: , Subject: RE: [toplevel, Cygwin] Don't warn if both newlib and winsup are missing Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:53:05 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20041012174207.26685.qmail@web41504.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Oct 2004 17:53:05.0657 (UTC) FILETIME=[53845690:01C4B084] > -----Original Message----- > From: Kelley Cook > Sent: 12 October 2004 18:42 > --- Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > Kelley Cook writes: > > > >> In July a patch was added to the Cygwin's toplevel that turns off > >> newlib if winsup isn't also present. > > > > Hang on, is this even the right thing? Aren't there > embedded targets > > that use newlib but not winsup? > > Sure there are. > > But this hunk of configure code only applied to target *-*-cygwin*, > which will not build newlib without winsup. > > See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-06/msg01388.html for when > this was added. > > KC This is a very strange way round to express the dependencies if you ask me. Cygwin depends on winsup, winsup depends on newlib. Well, I guess if newlib won't build in cygwin configuration without winsup being present then I guess its a circular dependency. Still sounds a bit strange to me though. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/