[tlbuild] TeXlive built with CYGWIN-gcc

[Jonathan Kew]

On 8 Sep 2008, at 11:43 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> Rodrigo Medina wrote:
>
>> would you please send an attachment with the list (ls -F)
>
> Attached!
>
> In any case, I think that the fact that now 'xetex' is built linked  
> to cygicu*dll could cause problems when one has also the 'icu'  
> Cygwin packages installed.
>
> The cygicu*dll, which 'xetex' needs, are a little different from  
> those shipped with Cygwin packages. And I think the dlls, built  
> along with xetex, should go to the 2008/bin/i386-cygwin directory...  
> or NOT?
>

This is one reason we normally build xetex with static-linked ICU  
libs, to avoid any such conflict. Can't it be done statically in Cygwin?

JK