Hi<br><br>How about trying out BR on FreeBSD? I do lots of my cross compilation to arm-linux on Freebsd. I find it gives least of suprises.<br><br> Whereas on a debian Lenny, for Example , as I mentioned in a previous mail, I need to do a 'dpkg-reconfigure recode' almost always before I "make" on BR, to prevent the libiconv errors from appearing. But I do have another Lenny setup with BR which shows none of these issues.<br>
<br>regards<br><br>Nataraj<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Peter Korsgaard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacmet@uclibc.org">jacmet@uclibc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <<a href="mailto:thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com">thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
Thomas> You're correct: we don't support Cygwin. I'm not personally interested<br>
Thomas> by adding Cygwin support to Buildroot, and I think that trying to do<br>
Thomas> embedded Linux development inside Cygwin doesn't make sense, you'd<br>
Thomas> better use Linux on your development workstation.<br>
<br>
Thomas> Now, if someone steps in and wants to improve Buildroot to support<br>
Thomas> Cygwin, why not, but we'll have to see how invasive the changes are. I<br>
Thomas> don't think we want to merge invasive Cygwin-specific changes if no-one<br>
Thomas> is going to maintain them on the long term. As none of the current main<br>
Thomas> Buildroot contributors use Windows and Cygwin, Cygwin support is<br>
Thomas> probably going to be broken quite often by mistake due to improvements<br>
Thomas> we make to Buildroot.<br>
<br>
Thomas> Of course, that's my own personal point of view, not the one of the<br>
Thomas> Buildroot project as a whole.<br>
<br>
FYI, I agree totally with the above. There's a few other reasons why<br>
using Linux instead of Cygwin is a good idea:<br>
<br>
- Windows (and in term Cygwin) has a few hardcoded magic file names<br>
(comN.*, con.*, prn.*, ..), which breaks horrible when packages have<br>
source files like con.c<br>
<br>
- Cygwin is SLOW. It's >5 years since I last used it, but back then it<br>
was around 40x slower than Linux for configure/make/make install style<br>
stuff.<br>
<br>
- A lot of the issues people have when they start working on embedded<br>
Linux systems are Linux questions rather than anything specific to<br>
embedded. The best way to learn Linux is IMHO just using it as much as<br>
possible.<br>
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard<br>
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