Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] output directory names

[Mark Brand]

> > > I forgot to mention the "easy" option of just using whatever directory
> > > appears in "tmp-sqlite" after unpacking ("cd *").
> > >
> > > There is also the complication of archives whose files are not 
> > > contained
> > > in a new output directory.
> > I agree that this would be a nice solution, despite that special case.
> > However, there's currently no pressing need to do that as SQLite fixed
> > their issue.
> >
> > However, feel free to start working on that if you're still motivated
> > to do that. I'd be glad to help out with Make macros, but the most
> > work would be to get rid of all uses of $(PKG)_SUBDIR in all src/*.mk
> > files.
>
> It's not a pressing issue, but it would be a welcome simplification to 
> get rid of $(PKG)_SUBDIR.
>
> Was there originally a compelling reason for the strict treatment of 
> the subdir?
>
> Regarding the references, my quick grepping of $(PKG)_SUBDIR shows 
> that it's mostly used to construct $(PKG)_FILE and more rarely 
> $(PKG)_URL. These seem easy to replace.

I went ahead and took care of these easy cases:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/8c38239957db

> The exotic cases are gcc, glib, openexr, postgresql and wxwidgets, 
> some of which even have references to other packages' $(PKG)_SUBDIR. 
> Alternative tricks would have to be found.

Any volunteers? :)

Mark