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Re: Issue with building make with mingw32 compilers.


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Issue with building make with mingw32 compilers.
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:44:21 +0200

> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:09:47 +0400
> From: Pavel Fedin <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> >> and that means that I need to use --host=i586-mingw32msvc when building
> >> make.
> 
> > Why does the prefix end with "msvc"?  The MSVC compiler is not
> > involved in this build or in the target system, so the prefix sounds
> > wrong.
> 
>  May   be  simply  replace  "mingw32"  with  "mingw"  ?

Because mingw32 is the canonical name, and too many configure scripts
out there already know about it.



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