On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 9:58 PM Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1234@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