Question about gcc-mingw package renaming

[Nicholas Wourms]

vinschen@redhat.com wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:56:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
>>I agree with Chris here.  IMO, gcc-mingw is a cross-compiler targeting the
>>"mingw architecture".  I have seen packages on Linux named "gcc-<arch>",
>>so I think gcc-mingw is more appropriate (where "gcc" alone assumes
>>"gcc-cygwin", or even "gcc-i686-pc-cygwin").
> 
> 
> I agree partly.  I don't think that the cross compiler for mingw should
> get an shortened name as "gcc-mingw" but only a full targeted name as
> "gcc-i686-pc-mingw32" as for any other cross compiler.
> 

Don't you mean i686-pc-mingw32-gcc?

Cheers,
Nicholas