Some cygwin/mingw related things

[Josef Svenningsson]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:02:28 -0800, Sigbjorn Finne <sof at galois.com> wrote:
> The --with-gcc= option isn't understood by the ghc/configure
> script -- or any other of the configure scripts kicking around,
> I would imagine -- hence ignored.
> 
I see.

> Save yourself all this bother by putting mingw/bin to the front
> of your PATH (it's the right thing to do, anyway), or prefix
> a CC setting before invoking the configure script:
> 
>    foo$ CC=/ming/bin/gcc ./configure <....>
> 
Right. I put the mingw gcc first in my path and successfully built a
stage 3 compiler.

Thanks for the help.

/Josef