"Corinna Vinschen" wrote:
> Charles said it all. Thanks for the offer, but MingW
packages really
> don't
> belong in the Cygwin distro, but in the MingW distro.
I'm sorry, but on this one I must respectfully dissagree.
While Cygwin is clearly a disto, i find mingw to be more a
compilation
target platform.
MSYS is a distro, but I don't think mingw32 is. As you
probably know even
Debian
distributes some Mingw32 packages, as that is reasonable.
Rember that
cygming-special
gcc's are dual target. One target is native, the other
target is a
cross-compilation target.
Remember that a cross-compiled target may in fact run on the
same machine it
was built on,
as in the case of compiling to the same platform but a
different executable
format.
Cygwin includes what is basicly a cross-compiler, so it is
reasonable to
include
a base set of libraries for the target platform. That said,
it is also
reasonable not to
include tose libraries.
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