Crossed-Native Builds, Toolchain Relocation and MinGW

[Dave Murphy]

Ross Ridge wrote:
> Ross Ridge wrote:
>   
>> That makes no difference.  MinGW GCC is a native Win32 application and
>> can't see any mounts you create with MSYS.
>>     
>
> Dave Murphy wrote:
>   
>> sorry but you're most definitely wrong about that
>>     
>
> No, I'm not.  The example you gave shows how MSYS mounts have an effect on
> the MSYS shell, which is not a native Win32 application.  The "toolchain
> relocation" code in MinGW GCC is unaffected by MSYS mounts you might
> create, and so providing "a mount point identical to the configured
> prefix" won't have any effect.
>
>   
oops, that'll teach me to think a bit more before posting :)

I'm totally at a loss to explain the problems Ranjit was experiencing in 
this mail then.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-04/msg00247.html

the part where he says " when run from within the MSYS environment, 
everything was hunky-dory but when run from the Windows command prompt, 
it used to give a "_spawnvp: No such file or directory" error when one 
tried to compile something."

I can't say I've encountered that one locally but one of my users had 
this issue with win98.

Dave