Re: [Mingw-w64-public] unneeded directory?

[Jim M. <jmi...@ya...>]

 
I have multiple kinds of gcc compilers...  DJGPP, mingw, mingw-w64 of many kinds, ...  they need to change that page. :-/




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> From: JonY <jo...@us...>
>To: min...@li... 
>Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:28 AM
>Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] unneeded directory?
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>On 2/16/2012 16:52, Christer Solskogen wrote:
>> JonY <jon_y@...> writes:
>> 
>>>
>>> On 2/16/2012 02:28, Christer Solskogen wrote:
>>>> I saw that your scripts have sysroot == prefix. As far as I know, that 
>>>> it not a good thing when creating cross-compiler (but a good thing when 
>>>> you create a native compiler), so I presumed your scripts wasn't doing that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Please elaborate.
>>>
>> 
>> I asked the same thing :-) I got this:
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-12/msg00038.html
>> 
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>This does make sense in some cases, but not in the case where we need
>the headers and libraries to be search independent of where gcc will be
>installed on the user's machine.
>
>It'll be kind of hard to dictate that "You may only install to
>/opt/mingw-w64-toolchain/v1/bindist, and nowhere else!" to the users.
>
>Alas, most users will cringe if we forced them to build from source
>every time to suit gcc to their setup.
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