On Aug 30, 2005, at 12:42 AM, Kai Ruottu wrote:
I understand people coming from all kind of native cultures and so the unified 'one culture' world seen with cross-GCCs, sounds strange. For me the cross world is the familiar
Apparently not, as you didn't just build up a compiler and use it.
and all those native worlds are the strange ones...
You seem awfully hung up on native cygwin, a topic no one but you even mentioned. Why did you bring it up?
A better approach could have been to think with every $target, how on earth those proprietary headers & libraries could be installed into the "standard GCC" install layout.
We welcome your patch to implement this.
All the complaints about apps requiring them being built natively, not by cross-compiling them, could have been rare.
We welcome your patch to fix this.