[Mingw-w64-public] Some mingw hosted autobuilds questions and remarks

[Ruben V. B. <van...@gm...>]

Hi,

Instead of hijacking Ozkan's "thread", I will start a new one!

Some strange things in the autobuilds:
1. Stripping all exe's (including the ones in the libexec subdirectories) in
the autobuild reduces total package size with a factor of 1/2... Seems like
upload/download time and bandwith usage for everyone could be reduced
significantly very easily. I have said this before.
2. There is a x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib32 directory full of 32-bit mingw-w64
crt libraries, but the gcc itself is configured with "--disable-multilib",
making these completely useless. Either GCC should be buillt with multilib
support (which would be the best), or the lib32 part shouldn't be built,
shaves another five minutes off the build time. Is the multilib dll install
fiasco still unsolved? (I must remember to keep following Clang and see if
it works all right with mingw-w64!)
3. /include is empty? Why are the C++ headers in the x86_64-w64-mingw32
directory? Is this something new in GCC 4.7 or a bug in the build/install
process?

Mind you: I appreciate all the work put into these things, I just feel the
quality can be *easily* improved, making mingw-w64 *a lot* better.

Thanks!

Ruben