From: Cesar S. <ces...@gm...> - 2009-06-23 15:17:31
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Charles Wilson wrote: The real controversy here is the use of "mingw32" as the subsystem > identifier. Technically, these packages are *msys* utilities, because > they depend on msys-perl, msys-bash, etc. However, the question is how > to distinguish THESE packages from the msysdvlpr ones -- I don't really > like "-msys-" vs. "-msysdvlpr-". And besides, these really should > reside in /mingw/bin, so that the typical PATH settings which have > /mingw/bin precede /usr/bin when !msysdvlpr will enable the typical > mingw user to have default access to the "mingw32"-specific autotool > utilities, and not "accidentally" get the msys-specific ones. > > I would use the subsystem name to indicate under which root the file should be unpacked: *-mingw32-* should be unpacked in /mingw *-msys-* should be unpacked in /usr Regards, Cesar |