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Re: A cygwin hosted MinGW targeted cross platform


On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:44:36PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Norman Vine wrote:
>> 
>> Earnie Boyd writes:
>> >
>> >I'm wondering what prefix parameter should be used?  I like (listed in
>> >order of preference):
>> >
>> >--prefix=/usr/cross
>> >--prefix=/usr
>> >
>> >Comments?
>> 
>> I have been using
>> 
>> --prefix=/usr/mingw
>> 
>
>It needs to be generic enough for the possibility of other cross tools.

Red Hat uses something like:

/usr/H-i686-pc-cygwin

for the cygwin "H"osted tools.

Underneath that you get something like:

i686-pc-cygwin
i686-pc-linux
etc.

for the targeted tools.

So, in this instance you'd have:

/usr/H-i686-pc-cygwin/i686-pc-mingw32

FYI,
cgf

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