From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2258 invoked by alias); 29 Aug 2006 12:45:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 2237 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Aug 2006 12:45:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:45:27 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GI2y5-0003VF-IV; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:45:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:06:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, mingw-patches@lists.sourceforge.net, cygwin-patches@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses Message-ID: <20060829124525.GA13245@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, mingw-patches@lists.sourceforge.net, cygwin-patches@cygwin.com References: <20060829114107.GA17951@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060829114107.GA17951@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-08/txt/msg00202.txt.bz2 On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:41:07PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > > I created the below patchset to allow to build canadian crosses with > MinGW as host machine. It allowed me to build a linux-x-mingw-x-powerpc > canadian cross, using the in-tree winsup directory, and so, > consequentially, without the need to have any externally installed MinGW > headers and/or libraries. > > Unfortunately, this requires changes in top-level, in libiberty, in > winsup, in winsup/mingw, and in winsup/w32api. Some of these patches may be good on their own. But, why go to this much effort to support doing this complicated setup in a single tree? I really don't think it's a good idea. If you want to build some code that runs on mingw, I don't think that having mingw tools installed is an unreasonable requirement. We have to pick and choose where to invest in making our build system even more complex. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery