From e9e924bfae0cb8430fbe193b5bf579b152d8a097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Faylor Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:16:19 +0000 Subject: * Makefile.in: Skip validation in xmlto step. * overview.sgml: Clarify language in "A brief history of Cygwin". --- winsup/doc/overview.sgml | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'winsup/doc/overview.sgml') diff --git a/winsup/doc/overview.sgml b/winsup/doc/overview.sgml index 0d521fe1e..4f7ef3a3e 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/overview.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/overview.sgml @@ -84,16 +84,16 @@ new interface the Cygwin API. Once written, it was possible to build working Win32 tools using UNIX-hosted cross-compilers, linking against this library. -From this point, we pursued the goal of producing native tools +From this point, we pursued the goal of producing Windows-hosted tools capable of rebuilding themselves under Windows 9x and NT (this is often called self-hosting). Since neither OS ships with standard UNIX user tools (fileutils, textutils, bash, etc...), we had to get the GNU -equivalents working with the Cygwin API. Most of these tools were +equivalents working with the Cygwin API. Many of these tools were previously only built natively so we had to modify their configure scripts to be compatible with cross-compilation. Other than the configuration changes, very few source-level changes had to be -made. Running bash with the development tools and user tools in place, -Windows 9x and NT look like a flavor of UNIX from the perspective of +made since Cygwin provided a UNIX-like API. Running bash with the development tools and user tools in place, +Windows 9x and NT looked like a flavor of UNIX from the perspective of the GNU configure mechanism. Self hosting was achieved as of the beta 17.1 release in October 1996. @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ the GNU configure mechanism. Self hosting was achieved as of the beta The entire Cygwin toolset was available as a monolithic install. In April 2000, the project announced a -New Cygwin Net Release which provided the native Win32 program +New Cygwin Net Release which provided the native non-Cygwin Win32 program setup.exe to install and upgrade each package separately. Since then, the Cygwin DLL and setup.exe have seen continuous development. -- cgit v1.2.3