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Hi Ben,

On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 19:48:15 -0800, Ben Longbons <brlongb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To be consistent with other binutils-$cross packages:
> 
> * the packages should be named according to the triple
> (binutils-i686-w64-mingw32 and binutils-x86-64-w64-mingw32 - note that
> underscore is not valid in package names so it is replace with dash)

The other binutils-$cross packages target triplets which are known to dpkg;
I'm keeping that namespace for the day the mingw-w64 triplets are added to
dpkg and we can start using proper multiarch.

> * Symlinks should be placed in /usr/$triple/bin
> (This is important to support tools that only know how to look
> for `ld` and `as` in another PATH, common among non-C cross-compilers)

I wasn't aware of that, I thought all modern tools were capable of using
triplet-prefixed tools. I'll add the symlinks... Just out of curiosity, do
you have specific examples of non-C cross-compilers which fail currently?

Regards,

Stephen

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