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List:       perl5-porters
Subject:    Re: non-cygwin mingw builds: dependency on tr(1)
From:       Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna () efn ! org>
Date:       2005-03-31 17:32:36
Message-ID: 20050331173236.GB11424 () efn ! org
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:57:07PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> Steve Hay wrote:
> > I'm never sure if the win32/makefile.mk is relevant for Cygwin or not.  
> > It is certainly not used for doing Cygwin builds, but it is possible to 
> > use MinGW from within a Cygwin environment to create a "native" Win32 
> > build.  Does anyone know if that uses win32/makefile.mk or not?  
> > Yitzchak, perhaps?
> 
> BTW, this is a thing to add in the "known problems" section
> of perl592delta.pod, I think.

Which problem?  N.B. Using cygwin's MinGW to build perl isn't yet
documented as a supported option because it currently requires a patch
to makemaker.  I'm (slowly) looking into whether cygwin can be changed
to not need the patch.
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