Source packages for Cyg versions of gcc-mingw-(core and g++)

[Brian Dessent]

Dave Korn wrote:

> dk@rainbow /usr/src> ls -la gcc-mingw-core-20050522-1/
> total 3521
> drwxrwx---+  2 dk Users       0 May 15 12:05 .
> drwxrwx---+ 36 dk Users       0 May 15 12:06 ..
> -rwxr-x---+  1 dk Users    3762 Jun  4  2005 Makefile.in
> -rwxr-x---+  1 dk Users   72828 Jun  4  2005 configure
> -rwxr-x---+  1 dk Users      81 Jun  4  2005 configure.in
> -rwxr-x---+  1 dk Users 3523621 Jun  4  2005 gcc-core-3.4.4-20050522-1.tar.gz
                                              
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yes, and unwrap one more layer.   This file
gcc-core-3.4.4-20050522-1.tar.gz is the *binary* gcc package, as taken
directly from mingw.org.  The configure script provided merely
repackages this existing binary tarball into one suitable for Cygwin, it
does not actually build anything.  It is quite a strange way of doing
things, but it does not appear to be accidental.

To anyone actually interested in the source for gcc-mingw, the answer is
that since these gcc binaries are taken directly from mingw.org, you can
use their source packages to rebuilt them.  However, in terms of cygwin,
the -src package should consist of source, not an upstream binary.

Brian