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Re: autoconf


Bob Rossi wrote:
[snip]
> Here's the full story. I'm trying to build apr. It needs to be built
> with mingw in order to have thread support. It specifically disables
> thread support with cygwin.
>
> So, instead of getting the mingw
> environment, I'd like to use the cygwin environment cause I my build
> system builds many other packages.
> 
> I can't figure out how to get past this problem. Any help at all would
> be greatly appreciated. 
[snip]

One option is to do a cross build:

$ ./configure --build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-mingw32
[...]
Checking for Threads...
[...]
APR will use threads
[...]
-- 
René Berber


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