Re: [Mingw-users] Duplicate binutil files after GCC 3.2 installation.

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

"Sternbach, William [IT]" wrote:
> 
> Earnie,
> 
> As part of the next version of GCC (Perhaps 3.2_1),
> it might be nice if you can clean up this duplication
> and also change the configurations so they no longer
> look at the redundant c:\gcc\mingw32\bin directory
> for the binutils.
> 
> If we have the binutils in c:\gcc\bin, why duplicate
> them in c:\gcc\mingw32\bin?
> This way we can improve gcc by having a cleaner
> installation.  Also, this will reduce the size of gcc
> and the amount of time needed to download it.
> 
> What do you think?

It's a standard created by the compiler tools industry.  We can't
arbitrarily change it.

Earnie.