Bug#360587: Please link all binaries into /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin

2006-04-22 Thread Ron
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:57:10PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Ron wrote: > > >This comes up from time to time, but I'm still not totally convinced > >that this is an idiom we should be encouraging. The upstream install > >does not do this, and it is not what is recommended

Bug#360587: Please link all binaries into /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin

2006-04-22 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Nikita, can you throw any light on the direction we should be taking > here? It seems to share some context with the recent discussion > re dpkg-cross. I've never seen any document on how cross-development related files should be located. So I don't know how to do things properly :( pgpzw07Y

Bug#360587: Please link all binaries into /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin

2006-04-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Ron wrote: This comes up from time to time, but I'm still not totally convinced that this is an idiom we should be encouraging. The upstream install does not do this, and it is not what is recommended by autoconf. What does autoconf recommend? The current scheme doesn't p

Bug#360587: Please link all binaries into /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin

2006-04-22 Thread Ron
Hi, On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:49:44PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > Package: mingw32 > Version: 3.4.2.20040916.1-2 > Severity: wishlist > > Please could you link all the binaries into /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin, > e.g. /usr/bin/i586mingw32msvc-gcc --> /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/gcc? > > This wou

Bug#360587: Please link all binaries into /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin

2006-04-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: mingw32 Version: 3.4.2.20040916.1-2 Severity: wishlist Please could you link all the binaries into /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin, e.g. /usr/bin/i586mingw32msvc-gcc --> /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/gcc? This would make it easier to use some build systems by just setting a prefix for all paths (/