Christopher Faylor wrote: > I just waded through this thread and I'm confused about why it is being > actively discussed here since it's obviously a purely mingw issue.
Because it affects the cygwin build process, and my motivation was to support DESTDIR which really only helps *cygwin*. I'm basically asking the mingw guys for a favor -- but wanted to keep the cygwin community in the loop, since it's a favor for *us*. Besides, we discussed Corinna's cross-compile improvements, which also were specific to winsup/mingw/, here... > Anyway, the mingw developers have indicated that they would be ok with > moving mingw and w32api out of the winsup directory at some point. I > think that's the ultimate solution. This was something that I was going > to pursue after 1.7 is finally released. I knew the point had been raised, but in my brief searches I couldn't find any indication that they were ok with that -- or that we (e.g. really, that you, Corinna -- and Chris Sutcliff) were. Good to know, and I agree...eventually <g>. BTW, welcome back. -- Chuck
