On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:11:35AM -0400, Sheryl Canter wrote: >Christopher, > >> There are cygwin ports of RPM available also, FWIW. > >That's good to know, thanks. Do you have a link? No, I don't. Sorry. I'm sure google would unearth something. >> Alwo, FWIW, a few people have done the cygwin->mingw cross compiler thing. >IIRC, there is a glibc patch required because glibc has a couple of >files whose names differ only by case. However, these days, cygwin has >the ability to deal with that with the 'mount -o managed' option which >allows you to mount an empty directory and populate it with files that >differ by case or which contain non-windows friendly characters like ':' >or create filenames like 'aux', or 'com1'. > >Can you give me more detail on this--where I can find the patch, and how I >use this cygwin option? The patch is probably in the libc-alpha mailing list and the option is discussed in the mount documentation, i.e., "man mount". For more information on cygwin, please use the cygwin mailing list at cygwin.com.
