Re: GCC 3.3 MingW Crossed-Native Build Suceeded! (Woo hoo!)

[Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>]

Hi all,

I looks like there is/was a problem with this list.
Have messages been eaten?

>I notice that the libstdc++.a library in the download is around
>30MB when it easily be reduced to around 1MB by stripping it
>of debugging information or see this message:
>
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2002-10/msg00168.html
>
>IMHO, you should keep the SWT binaries separate from the 3.3 download.
>
>And just to be on the right side of things, you should include the
>GPL and the LGPL licenses with this as well - see "COPYING", "COPYING.LIB"
>and "README.LIBIBERTY" in the GCC sources.

I'll definitely do the latter two and look into the first one. Won't
stripping the debugging information mean that people will have a more
difficult time debugging this?

On another note: I'm dabbling with a self-hosted MingW build and it's
complaining about libraries (like libstdc++) having been moved. It
looks like I'll have to retouch the .la files, but I'm not clear on
why some things are in gcc-lib and others are in just lib, and also
why there are so many -L paths in the .la file, referencing my build
directory and other such locations. I'll keep digging...

Thanks again.

-- Mohan
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