Re: [Cegcc-devel] Got windres working with utf-8 input on linux (patch)

[Danny B. <dan...@sc...>]

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 09:44 -0700, Eric House wrote:
> > > I'm not sure how to proceed with getting this fixed upstream.  The
> > > whole mingw world seems behind on Linux.
> > 
> > Getting a bug fixed in binutils is not hard : just send the fix to the
> > right mailing list (bug...@gn...). Doing the diff against their
> > CVS (instead of cegcc's SVN) would make their work easier.
> 
> Do you expect to pull from binutils trunk anytime soon?
> 
> Last I checked the tip of mingw didn't build on Linux, and discussions
> on their boards suggest it's not a priority for them until the gcc
> world settles down.  If I can't build, can I submit a patch that I
> haven't been able to test even to see if it compiles?  (I tried
> setting up cygwin to build on XP and got nowhere: I'm a Windows newbie
> and don't have time to learn that OS.)

I must be overlooking something. What's the mingw you're referring to ?

To me it looks like your patch is on binutils. If binutils-CVS works as
a part of cegcc, and you can fix an error in it, and test that, then
this should do ...

	Danny

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