On 2013-06-28 23:13+0100 Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Fri, 28/6/13, Alan W. Irwin irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
... But I _know_ the MSYS version of cat works fine on recent
Wine just like the rest of the GNU toolchain used for building software so if the MSYS and Cygwin GNU toolchain code bases have not diverged too much it should be straightforward (and probably quite fast,
...
Again, MSYS (i.e. Mingw) is not cygwin. This is probably an FAQ on mingw's web site. You really need to do some reading.
Hmm. I think the shoe is on the other foot. Please read what I said above which clearly acknowledges the well-known differences between the MinGW/MSYS GNU toolchain and the Cygwin one.
The Mingw GNU toolchain works wells under wine. The cygwin GNU toolchain don't, the last time I checked.
That may be true, but the best way to make that point about the Cygwin GNU toolchain is with official Cygwin bug reports rather than asserting stuff here in an anecdotal way.
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