Windows tools from binutils 2.18

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Markus,

 >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:34:20PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
 >> How do you think about that the configuration script could provide such
 >> a setting as a service to generate the Windows utilities automatically?

 > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> I don't understand.  Why is "--target=i586-mingw32" or
> "--target=i586-cygwin" harder than any other option?

I totally agree.  There really is no need for a special configure option.  Just 
build the appropriate toolchain and if you really only want the windows 
utilities then just install those executables.

Cheers
   Nick