Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

On Aug 29 12:09, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:04:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug 29 11:47, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > Btw, I agree with Daniel's suggestion of using
> > > ../config/no-executables.m4 if that's possible.
> > 
> > I did that first, but the argument against this is that the
> > mingw-runtime package, does not contain a top-level config directory.
> > The source tree is supposed to be built stand-alone.  Therefore it's
> > required to have a stand-alone aclocal.m4 file.
> > 
> > [time passes]
> > 
> > Or do you mean I should just add an include(../config/no-executables.m4)
> > to winsup/acinclude.m4 and create the aclocal.m4 files from there?
> 
> If you do that it'll just emit a sinclude into aclocal.m4 anyway, won't
> it?

Hm, yes, I guess so.

But the problem is clear I hope.  If we refer to ../config/foo, the
mingw/aclocal.m4 file isn't self-sufficient anymore.  That's actually
the only reason I didn't refer to ../config/no-executables.m4, but
copied it instead.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat