Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, David Woodhouse had 
to walk into mine at 11:00:23 on Monday 17 August 2015 and say:

> On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 10:53 -0700, Jordan Justen wrote:
> > UNIXGCC and CYGGCC are GCC 4.3 & mingw based. Did this get tested?
> > 
> > I think ELFGCC is unused at this point. (And has been since UnixPkg
> > was deprecated.)
> > 
> > I think we should deprecate all three of these toolchains. I would
> > like to see us move them to BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.deprecated. I'll
> > add Larry to this email, because I think he disagrees with
> > deprecating
> > toolchains...
> > 
> > If you make these changes and it breaks those toolchains, I don't
> > think we would be able to notice, because I don't think we test them
> > in our build pool anymore. To me this is all the more reason to move
> > them out of tools_def.template.
> 
> I was building with UNIXGCC last week, to test LLP64 builds without the
> pain of actually having to deal with Windows.
> 
> I'd rather see it updated to work with modern MinGW rather than
> deprecated.

I use UNIXGCC with the cross-compiler toolchain generated by mingw-gcc-
build.py. Yes, I know the existing version of the script uses GCC 4.3.0. 
That's why I made an updated version that uses 4.9.3:

http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/edk2/mingw-gcc-build.py

I know you don't want to support this script, that's why I did the work for 
you. :) Yes I've tested both IA32 and X64 builds. Yes they work fine.

There is value in being able to bootstrap your own cross-build toolchain on 
whatever platform. I don't think you should be so quick to remove it.

-Bill

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