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Re: mingw -> linux cross compiler
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".
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