On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > I really don't see the point of this. I maintain the pseudo-official cross > toolchains for Cygwin, and I just remove what is not needed for > cross-compiling from the DESTDIR after install. This is also a fairly > common step when building library packages for cross-compiler toolchains.
The point is to allow building a cross-compiler without a hard dependency on a existing mingw cross toolchain. Without this patch, you cannot successfully compile a cross cygwin toolchain without a working mingw cross-compiler. I'll have a re-worked version at some point that is hopefully more acceptable. Thanks, Peter
