/usr/include/mingw32 ?

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Wed Nov 29 13:49:00 GMT 2000


--- Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:31:20AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > >Currently the MinGW runtime creates this subdirectory for Cygwin and
> > >/usr/include/mingw is a link to it.  I would like to reverse this. 
> Comments?
> > 
> > I have no problem with this.  I think that when I first released cygwin
> > 1.1.1 I did have this reversed and people complained so I reversed it.
> > I don't remember what the issues were but it makes sense to me that
> > it really should be mingw not mingw32.
> 
> What's about all the people who are using the MingW compiler from
> a cmd/command shell? All their scripts are trimmed to work with
> the mingw32 subdirectory. Don't know how important that is...
> 

It's only a concern for Cygwin.  MinGW GCC would look in /usr/include, not
/usr/include/mingw.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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