Re: [patch] Fix i386-mingw32 build failure

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
>
> > The even more correct solution is to not build anything with the 
> > compiler (including libgcc) until after it is installed.  Then, it will 
> > just look where it would normally look, and all will be well.
>
>
> You sure don't want to overwrite a compiler that is known to work with a
> compiler that is incomplete, never tested, and perhaps completely broken.

I certainly didn't mean to suggest that -- but that doesn't mean you 
can't install the compiler somewhere.  That's part of why people have 
worked hard to make it relocatable.  We've had this entire discussion 
before, and as far as I can tell, there's agreement-in-principle: you 
build things, install them in a staging area, and then copy/reinstall 
into a final location when you're done.  That avoids all the complicated 
symlinks/-B/-L/-I options -- which are not only complex, but also have 
been known to mask problems in the installed compiler.  (Things work at 
build time, but not at install time.)

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