From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:24:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48026C18.1090106@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080413103939.GB19533@thorin>
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:28:36PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>
>> The cygwin distro does not include any cross compilation tools. A
>> package that require tools not in the distro would not be accepted.
>>
>> The package is actually build with native cygwin gcc+binutils.
>>
>
> Sorry, I got out of context. What was the problem with providing ELF-capable
> toolchain in cygwin again?
>
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00233.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-12/msg00014.html
In fact, something like a i386-linux cross gcc suite would be necessary.
> I think that'd be much better than adding support for PE to GRUB (either native
> or via conversion layers).
>
>
Yes. But this only better in theory, unless someone maintains such a
toolchain for the Cygwin distro.
In practice, there now exists a working grub2 package which builds with
native gcc :-)
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-13 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-03 13:28 [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin Christian Franke
2008-04-03 16:02 ` Bean
2008-04-03 19:56 ` Christian Franke
2008-04-03 20:38 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-04-05 12:44 ` Christian Franke
2008-04-07 2:07 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-04-07 19:46 ` Christian Franke
2008-04-13 10:37 ` Robert Millan
2008-04-13 10:39 ` Robert Millan
2008-04-13 20:24 ` Christian Franke [this message]
2008-04-14 12:00 ` Robert Millan
2008-04-14 13:36 ` Christian Franke
2008-04-15 13:12 ` Robert Millan
2008-04-15 14:26 ` Christian Franke
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-16 12:03 Christian Franke
2007-10-16 13:34 ` Robert Millan
2007-10-20 23:37 ` Robert Millan
2007-10-21 13:07 ` Christian Franke
2007-10-21 13:18 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2007-10-21 13:51 ` Christian Franke
2007-10-21 14:13 ` Robert Millan
2007-11-09 13:57 ` Marco Gerards
2007-11-09 15:07 ` Christian Franke
2008-04-02 22:07 ` Christian Franke
2008-04-03 8:03 ` Bean
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