[yocto] meta-mingw: unable to run executables on Windows

[Samuli Piippo]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 12:17, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 09:57, Samuli Piippo <samuli.piippo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've just upgraded poky and meta-mingw layers from sumo to thud and as a result a lot of the executables in the toolchain no longer run correctly on Windows.
> >
> > I've built meta-toolchain for SDKMACHINE=x86_64-mingw32. From that, gcc/g++ work fine on Windows 10, but ar, as, objdumb, and others hang for ~30 seconds and exit without any output.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
>
> I suspect we need to find a maintainer who actually uses meta-mingw
> and can actually test it.  Would you be willing to bisect thud to sumo
> to identify where it breaks?

I can try to setup some kind of automatic bisect run script to test this.