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Re: Installing GCC components in separate directories
- From: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>
- To: niXman <i dot nixman at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:27:14 -0400
- Subject: Re: Installing GCC components in separate directories
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:04 PM, niXman <i.nixman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/7/29 NightStrike:
>> Just out of curiosity, what purpose does this serve?
>
> Imagine that I have built MinGW with the support of all the listed
> above PL, but the user of the builds needs C only.
> I've heard many times that users are angry that they have to download
> the build archive, which is twice bigger, just because of the fact
> that this build includes the support for the PL unnecessary to the
> user.
You might want to check out how JonY packages things for cygwin. They
split by language as I recall.