I will check this out. Thanks. Rpm -qa |grep mingw32 returned nothing. On Sun, Jan 1, 2023, 12:48 PM George N. White III <gnw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 9:58 PM Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I reinstalled my system and one reason was to take a look at these >> directories that are odd. I choose minimal install and no hypervisor >> checkbox. In /usr is two directories one is i686-mingw32- and another is >> x86_64-mingw32- or so directories. >> > > I maintain a package that originated on SGI IRIX64 and now builds on > linux, macOS, and even windows. For windows I've used Cygwin64, but > with WSL2, fewer users have Cygwin, so I ported the package to mingw64, > which has the advantages that there are cross compilers on linux which are > used by the R-project (there is considerable overlap in the libraries used > by R and my project). > > On my Fedora box: > > $ doas dnf provides /usr/i686-w64-mingw32 > Last metadata expiration check: 2:18:06 ago on Sun Jan 1 10:52:54 2023. > mingw32-filesystem-141-1.fc37.noarch : MinGW cross compiler base > filesystem and environment for the win32 target > Repo : fedora > Matched from: > Filename : /usr/i686-w64-mingw32 > > mingw32-filesystem-143-1.fc37.noarch : MinGW cross compiler base > filesystem and environment for the win32 target > Repo : updates > Matched from: > Filename : /usr/i686-w64-mingw32 > > >> >> Now inside these is a directory called sys-root and inside a Locale >> directory an directories for languages such as 'ca' and so on. rpm -qf >> said these directories were not owned by any package. I find this very >> odd myself. This was not present in f36. Only the 'afs' directory at >> root and I know it is supposed to be there. IDK if anyone else notices >> this or not. Not owned by anything. Maybe my tweaks have done it. I can >> check if there is any mingw packages installed I simply choose 'C >> Development tools' and add 'indent'. All I do for development type things. >> >> > -- > George N. White III > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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