> I agree with Chris here. IMO, gcc-mingw is a cross-compiler targeting the > "mingw architecture". I have seen packages on Linux named "gcc-<arch>", > so I think gcc-mingw is more appropriate (where "gcc" alone assumes > "gcc-cygwin", or even "gcc-i686-pc-cygwin").
Well, when you build gcc, binutils, et al as a cross compiler, the binaries you get are named eg <arch>-gcc, <arch>-ld, etc. Of course a binary name is not necessarily a package name. FWIW. -- Gary R. Van Sickle
