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Re: GCC4 status.


Dave Korn wrote:
> it's going to be a fairly non-standard
> x-compiler in that it won't go into the usual $prefix/$target sysroot, it's
> going to look for headers and libs directly where they live under the native
> prefix in /usr/include/mingw /usr/include/w32api /lib/mingw and /lib/w32api,
> and it's going to use the native 'as' and 'ld'.  So it's going to be an ugly
> hybrid beast....

Why? Why shouldn't it just be a normal, vanilla, cross-compiler? Just
because we don't want two copies of w32api and mingw-runtime, or a
cross-ld/cross-as?

I think the maintenance headaches associated with an "ugly hybrid beast"
outweigh those other, tiny, costs...

--
Chuck


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