GCC4 status.

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:05:20AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>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...

I agree.  I think we should relocate mingw and w32api into standard
locations.  That was part of the reason for getting rid of -mno-cygwin.

cgf