Re: bug: cygwin support breaks cross compiles on cygwin

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 11:03:49AM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I used cygwin to build grub2/i386-coreboot using an i386-elf cross 
> compiler. unfortunately the test in configure only looks for the host 
> platform and enables pe2elf in that case, even though my compiler emits 
> ELF already.
> 
> my workaround is to just change that test (there's no OS cyg_win), but 
> of course that's no permanent solution.
> Bean proposed on IRC to look if the target compiler emits PE, and enable 
> pe2elf based on that.

I have observed that grub-pe2elf is included even in native builds for ELF
platforms.  Perhaps this is caused by the same bug?

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