Re: [patch] compile: rm -rf -> ftw()+rmdir()+unlink() [Re: [patch] compile: Fix MinGW build]

Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-18T17:40:30Z

> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:31:03 +0100
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: ktietz@redhat.com, sellcey@imgtec.com, brobecker@adacore.com,
> yao@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> >From the Fedora point of view MinGW64 32-bit mode seems to be a superset of
> MinGW32 so why to care about MinGW32 anymore? Or what do I miss?

That _I_ use MinGW32?

Seriously, though: from my POV, MinGW64 is not reliable yet to switch
to it completely, their development still breaks the libraries too
often, and there are significant backward-incompatible changes now and
then. The fact that there's no official releases of MinGW64 doesn't
help. And no, MinGW64 is not a superset of MinGW32, it's a different
project with an incompatible ABI and subtly incompatible header files.
(Please don't start an argument about that, I'm not really
interested.)

Even if there were no problems with MinGW64, I don't think we should
stop supporting MinGW32 just like that, it is still a live project,
and I, for one, is quite happy with it. I hope GDB will not drop its
support any time soon.