On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > I was under the strong impression all MSYS tools were built with a special > (ancient) MSYS toolchain, which links and compiles in a Cygwin-y way. Maybe > "goal" was stating it a bit strongly, but in how the MSYS devs saw their > world taking shape, it was more of a prerequisite. The alternative is > porting/rewriting the utilities to real native Win32 apps, which is surely > not the case. >
Yes, things like coreutils are built using the MSYS runtime. My objection to your statement is that you stated it as the goal which isn't the case. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
