On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Steven Edwards <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Alexandre Julliard<[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is not a configure option, it's the name of the installed mingw32 > > binaries. They are supposed to follow the GNU naming convention for > > cross-compilers, and they do on all sane distros AFAIK. > > Right I get that. I just mean that its pretty common to see homebrewed > cross-compilers with just mingw32 as the prefix. The reason I guess > is that on Windows (c:\mingw\bin\*) it does not follow the gnu naming > convention because it does not have to follow it and people carry that > over when they are rolling their own cross-compiler. Now that most > distro's are shipping mingw packages this is less common. I guess your > argument is right and anyone rolling their own should get with the > program and follow the standard. > > -- > Steven Edwards > > "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and > that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo > > > Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, SUSE, and Mandriva come with complete toolkits that follow the GNU naming convention for the Win32 cross compiler.
