Re: bootstrap for native mingw broken?

[rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca (Ross Ridge)]

Ross Ridge writes:
> This is probably why --with-sysroot never accomplished anything useful
> for me.  Maybe --with-sysroot has changed since I last tried using it, or
> maybe there's something about how Kai Tietz does his "native" builds that
> makes it works for him.  All I know is something's not working for him.

NightStrike writes:
>Right, --with-sysroot is mainly used for cross/canadian cross.  Try
>building a mingw cross compiler from linux.  Ie, configure
>--build=i686-pc-linux --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=i686-pc-mingw32
>--prefix=/tmp/root --with-sysroot=/tmp/root

I assume you mean trying to build with a cross compiler, not building
a cross compiler.

>That will 1) require a sysroot, and 2) won't work due totKai's
>referenced new bug.

So you're saying that the bootstrap isn't broken, as Kai Tietz isn't
actually doing a native bootstrap, instead he's building a mingw hosted
and targeted compiler using a cross compiler on Linux?  As I understand
it, that's how Danny Smith does his builds, so why isn't he also required
to use sysroot, or if he is, why hasn't he encountered the bug?

Have you encountered this bug? 

				Ross Ridge