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Re: problems building GNU gettext 0.18.1.1 on MinGW / MSYS


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: problems building GNU gettext 0.18.1.1 on MinGW / MSYS
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:22:32 -0600
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On 09/27/2010 06:32 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
gettext's README.woe32 recommends Cygwin as a build environment for mingw
binaries, not MSYS.

And yet, gettext 0.18 is unbuildable on Cygwin natively:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00149.html

so it doesn't make much sense to use cygwin for cross builds until native builds have a chance of succeeding.

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