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Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: drow at false dot org
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, binutils at sourceware dot org, mingw-patches at lists dot sourceforge dot net, cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:23:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses
- References: <20060829114107.GA17951@calimero.vinschen.de> <20060829124525.GA13245@nevyn.them.org> <200608291459.k7TExRDT026512@greed.delorie.com> <20060829150948.GA18308@nevyn.them.org>
> Corinna is trying to generate --host=i686-mingw32 tools, with a
> different --target. This requires at least a --target=i686-mingw32
> compiler coming from elsewhere. That compiler can build the
> --host=i686-mingw32 libraries, and usually should.
Yes. So? We build that compiler from the same tree (as a simple
cross), so it's still the same problem. We still have to build those
libraries somehow, we still need to have them in source control, etc.
Our build farm likes to see a monolithic source tree, and we already
support building cygwin out of that tree, building mingw out of it is
a minor change.
(actually, we build four compilers out of that tree:
linux-linux-linux
linux-linux-mingw
linux-linux-arm
linux-mingw-arm)