From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Subject: Re: Cross-compilation to MinGW broken on core-updates Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:23:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87ink6wd7f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871sqv30c1.fsf@gnu.org> <87o9tzay7x.fsf@gnu.org> <87zidiwtq2.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJ260-0003uH-3s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:23:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJ25x-0004ED-AG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:23:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zidiwtq2.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:26:45 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: >> Hmm. Did bash successfully cross build to i686-w64=E2=80=93mingw32 befo= re? > > Good question, I=E2=80=99m not sure! I thought it was a prerequisite for= other > things, but maybe not. Yeah, then it needs to be ported. Bash is probably not trivial. I only looked at hello, guile and the lilypond stack (still waiting for some love and integration). > Probably not a blocker, but something nice to have. Sure. Bash is a pretty convenient interface to fork/exec/pipe, having that on MinGW would be quite something ;-) Greetings, janneke --=20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar=C2=AE http://AvatarAcademy.com