Some troubles with packaging toolchains (was Re: Need input on packaging mingw-w64 for Cygwin)

[JonY]

On 1/26/2010 23:07, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 25/01/2010 04:16, JonY wrote:
>
>> This could be changed in the upstream GCC with libw32stdc++-6 as 32bit
>> mingw-w64 toolchain, libw64stdc++-6 as 64bit mingw-w64, and the normal
>> libstdc++-6 for the mingw.org toolchain. Now all 3 can live side by
>> side.
>
>    That seems like a logical and consistent extension of the existing
> cyg*-vs-lib* DLL namespacing convention.
>
>      cheers,
>        DaveK
>
>
>

Hi,

there is also a related bug with libgcc which does not use libtool. See
<http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39947>.

Basically, the same issue with mingw based toolchains using
libgcc_s_<EH>-1.dll, clobbering each other on multilib mingw-w64 GCC
installs.