On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:05:20AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >> it's going to be a fairly non-standard >> x-compiler in that it won't go into the usual $prefix/$target sysroot, it's >> going to look for headers and libs directly where they live under the native >> prefix in /usr/include/mingw /usr/include/w32api /lib/mingw and /lib/w32api, >> and it's going to use the native 'as' and 'ld'. So it's going to be an ugly >> hybrid beast.... > >Why? Why shouldn't it just be a normal, vanilla, cross-compiler? Just >because we don't want two copies of w32api and mingw-runtime, or a >cross-ld/cross-as? > >I think the maintenance headaches associated with an "ugly hybrid beast" >outweigh those other, tiny, costs...
I agree. I think we should relocate mingw and w32api into standard locations. That was part of the reason for getting rid of -mno-cygwin. cgf
