> From: "Steve Ellcey " <sell...@mips.com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:28:13 -0800
> 
> 
> I was just trying to build a make that would run on Windows using the 
> mingw32 compilers on my Ubuntu linux system.  On this system the
> mingw32 compilers have a prefix of i586-mingw32msvc (not i586-mingw32)
> 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.

I think you should take this up with the upstream maintainers of
Ubuntu's mingw32 packages.

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