Am 29.01.22 um 15:22 schrieb Ilmari Lauhakangas:
So this beautiful annoyance came up during an email-driven
troubleshooting session:
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-cygwin
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-mingw32
[strip libassuan failure]
Would be tempting to just uninstall MinGW, but the newcomer needs it for
other stuff. How can we teach Cygwin to ignore MinGW?
We can't and shouldn't. You simply must provide the correct
--host=x86_64-pc-cygwin flag in this case.
But currently there is the other problem, that LO just forwards the
build and host configure flags in case of cross-compiling. I'm not sure
why this is implemented like this and it shouldn't be any problem to
always forward this information to the external's configure… except for
the Windows 32bit "cross-build" on Win64, where we're omitting the
cross-toolset build, as it's not needed. Windows is already the slowest
build, because it's currently not cached; PCH helps a bit.
So now there is https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/129153
It works here on Linux and maybe CI will work with it too. Then Cygwin +
MingW setup should work with --host=x86_64-pc-cygwin.
HTH
Jan-Marek
P.S. and we should fail LO's configure, if the host is detected or given
as *-mingw*, but that can be done in a separate patch.
P.P.S. this patch should be fine in any way, even by fixing the wrong
host value by adapting Windows %PATH%.
