Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Did unsupported/win32-g++-cross/qmake.conf change?

[Mark Brand]

On 09/24/2011 05:29 PM, René Berber wrote:
> On 24 Sep 2011 09:47:07, Mark Brand wrote:
>
> > These changes come from the regular win32-g++ Qt mkspec. Here is the commit:
> >
> > commit 0c4ed66e87ef6f76d5b0d67905b587c31ad03a18
> > Author: Darryl L. Miles<address@hidden>
> > Date:   Thu Mar 31 11:16:50 2011 +0200
> >
> >       Remove useless LFLAGS
> >
> >       These options were found to be no longer required for MinGW releases at
> >       this time (they are also never valid for MinGW64 when building 64bit).
> >
> >       They actually never worked anyway, as the GNU toolchain linker option
> >       "-enable-stdcall-fixup" actually means "-e" "nable-stdcall-fixup".
> >
> >       Merge-request: 1158
> >       Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen<address@hidden>
> I would say this is a bad joke, if it wasn't real.
>
> Why does D.L. Miles think that -enable-stdcall-fixup actually is a -e
> ...?  The documentation is clear:
> http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.21/ld/Options.html#Options
> (section 2.1.1) but these guys probably don't read it.
>
> Should I complain upstream then?  I guess so.
>
> But what is going on here? who is D.L. Miles and why is he changing the
> win32-g++-cross files?  Aren't these files an addition made by this project?

It looks like the commit message suffered when the commits in the merge 
request were squashed.

http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/merge_requests/1158

Mark