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--- Comment #6 from Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>  2009-07-27 04:23:33 
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> I'm starting to get your point. The mingw32-pkg-config tool should really be
> renamed to i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config so it can be found by ./configure 
> scripts without manually fiddling the environment variables. We can do such a 
> change without any side effects. However, if we want to use the sysroot part 
> as mentioned in bug 513826 we need to perform a complete rebuild of all 
> mingw32 packages.

Yes, that's why I filed a separate bug.

> Another issue I'm afraid of is that binaries compiled using Fedora's
> i686-pc-mingw32-gcc can't be mixed with binaries compiled with MinGW's GCC
> running in a wine environment (or that strange side-effects are introduced,
> possible due to bugs in wine)

That would be a bug.  One more reason to try what I'm doing. :-)

> I think of FORTIFY_SOURCE as an aid to detect bugs in libraries/programs. I
> can't think of any reason why this feature should be dropped.

Fine by me.

> > 2c) passing -mms-bitfields also has serious binary compatibility problems. 
> 
> IIRC, this parameter has became on by default in recent versions of GCC (I
> don't have a link to confirm it right now).

Unfortunately I checked the upstream sources and it's not.

> The cache file is only really needed for the glib2 package because some
> ./configure runtime checks are really required

You should use CONFIG_SITE for this too.

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