[Bug 454408] Review Request: mingw-binutils - MinGW Windows binutils

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Summary: Review Request: mingw-binutils - MinGW Windows binutils


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454408





------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2008-07-08 09:58 EST -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> Not so fast with approving this.
Well, I am packaging cross-toolchains for > 10 years (comprising mingw, cygwin
and many others.). So I am familiar with many issues packagers typically trip over.
 
> IMHO, having separate mingw SPEC files is totally unsustainable for
> maintainence.
I disagree. From my experience, anything but using a separate spec file,
separate tarballs and separate patches is non-maintainable.

> We need to build from the existing binutils SPEC file,
Why? MinGW is not Linux, uses different sources, has a different upstream,
suffers from different bugs, etc.

> perhaps
> just adding a sub-RPM with the mingw build of it (cf kernel SPEC which builds
> many sub-RPMs with different variants, PAE, SMP, UP, etc)
MinGW is not a variant of Linux. 

MinGW is a different OS with an independent upstream, with different libraries,
different GCC and many other differences.




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