[Mingw-w64-public] unneeded directory?

[Christer S. <chr...@gm...>]

Hi!

I've been playing a bit with creating a mingw-w64 cross compiler, and 
used that to create a native mingw-w64 compiler. I haven't done 
/exactly/ what the doc says, but the cross compiler works (since it 
compiles the native compiler and the resulting binaries works) and the 
native compiler is working as far as I can see (it compiles hello.c 
without any problems and the resulting binary works.

But I've noted one thing. The directory mingw (which on linux is a 
symlink to x86_64-w64-mingw32) is just a copy of x86_64-w64-mingw32. And 
at least on my Windows machine, the mingw directory is really not 
needed. I moved it away and it still compiles working binaries.

Is it because gcc is braindead that we really need that symlink? I can't 
quite understand why we need it in the first place.

If you like I can document (to be put on the wiki) how I created my 
cross compiler.

-- 
chs