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Re: Size?
- To: Rosimildo daSilva <rosimildo at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Size?
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 23:15:14 +0000
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <F99DDD9FhGDrFjO0ybv000029b0@hotmail.com>
Rosimildo daSilva wrote:
>
> From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe@larwe.com>
> >I mean, compilers are pretty much the easiest software in the world to
> >port... I'd be curious to know the thinking behind wrapping it all in
> >cygwin.
That's an interesting point of view. Why don't you load it into your
favourite Windows compiler and see for yourself the many ways in which GCC
has been written for a Unix environment. Then move onto make, and GDB, and
binutils...
> Boy!, I am hopeful that one of these days, the CygWin folks would
> act together, and once for all, fix this line termination issue.
> I have been using Cygwin for the last 3 years, and it is a major
> pain the as*. Everything else works very smoothly. But, line
> termination is a major issue.
Cygwin is open source. So are all the eCos host tools. Feel free to
contribute patches. Until then...
Jifl
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