Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] libiberty.a has gone?

[Mark Brand]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/03/12 11:56, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > Using the current hg sources, gcc does not install
> > "usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libiberty.a" anymore. (It's needed for stuff
> > like vasprintf() and other functions that mingw lacks.)
> >
> > The 2.21 release which came with GCC 4.6.0 still installs it.
>
> Or maybe it's binutils that provides that, not GCC.  Not sure.

Actually, I think it was gcc. Gcc 4.6.1 was the last version that 
installed usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libiberty.a. I don't know the reason 
for the change. The change seems to be in gcc itself rather than in 
anything that mingw-cross-env does.

The gcc documentation seems to recommend against installing libiberty 
"on its own" [1].

Apparently libiberty is in binutils, gcc and gdb.

Any insights here regarding what mingw-cross-env should do about this, 
if anything?

Mark

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libiberty/Using.html#Using