From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Jl8l6-0005If-So for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:25:04 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jl8l4-0005Gq-J3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:25:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jl8l2-0005FE-TF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:25:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jl8l2-0005Ev-Np for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:25:00 -0400 Received: from mailout05.t-online.de ([194.25.134.82]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jl8l2-0005l8-LJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:25:00 -0400 Received: from fwd35.aul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1Jl8l0-0007IC-09; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:24:58 +0200 Received: from [10.3.2.2] (GuloKTZUohP-nLZSbVosdOcWcMKpIX442NqH25V42Spe0KKn+hYPA8NBEiDSrZDQ3L@[217.235.210.250]) by fwd35.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1Jl8kx-0hWfya0; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:24:55 +0200 Message-ID: <48026C18.1090106@t-online.de> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:24:56 +0200 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <1JhPUa-0XNW4m0@fwd35.aul.t-online.de> <20080413103939.GB19533@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20080413103939.GB19533@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: GuloKTZUohP-nLZSbVosdOcWcMKpIX442NqH25V42Spe0KKn+hYPA8NBEiDSrZDQ3L X-TOI-MSGID: 069914d1-cb5c-45dc-8e78-02577c83d09e X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:25:02 -0000 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