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Re: PING [4.1 regression, patch] build i686-pc-mingw32

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 04:14:04PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Ok.  Given that 'cp' was an acceptable fallback in the original version
> of the above script, I wonder why 'cp' wasn't used instead of creating a
> shell script wrapper.

Because it is desirable to leave the tools where they were: they may
know about paths relative to where they are installed.  "as" is not the
interesting case here; "ld" is.  If configured properly, GNU ld will
look for libraries relative to its install directory - very useful for
building cross toolchains.  Or some third party linker may load DLLs
relative to its install path.

I'd say that using cp for mingw32 is not a huge step backwards.  If
someone triggers a failure case, then we can do more work on it then.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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