Re: Building portions of coreutils

[NightStrike]

On 2/3/08, Brian Dessent <address@hidden> wrote:
> NightStrike wrote:
>
> > Thanks :)  I agree that mingw is a very hard platform to work with.
> > My intent is to just get enough programs working to be able to
> > configure and build the toolchain (binutils, gcc, and gdb).
>
> I don't see how you have any hope of doing that.  The whole reason for
> the creation of MSYS was to do exactly what you just said.  If it were
> possible to build coreutils (and bash, etc) without an emulation layer
> like MSYS then it would never have been created.

The idea isn't all that far fetched.  It also will expose a number of
issues with our headers set (as it has already).  Even if it can't be
done in the end, it's a good exercise and learning experience.