A better alternative could be to just build biarch binutils, which is now possible with recent CVS (but not with 2.19.1 which is latest stable release ATTOW).
See attached patch. Could you apply this and update binutils? I notice you're using a CVS snapshot already, so it should be no problem. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
--- debian/rules~ 2009-07-08 00:10:21.000000000 +0200 +++ debian/rules 2009-07-08 00:12:01.000000000 +0200 @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ package = mingw32-binutils target = i586-mingw32msvc +target64 = amd64-mingw32msvc top_dir := $(shell pwd) upstream_dir := $(top_dir)/upstream @@ -39,7 +40,8 @@ cd $(build_objs) \ && $(build_src)/$(binutils)/configure -v \ --prefix=/usr \ - --target=$(target) + --target=$(target) \ + --enable-targets=$(target),$(target64) touch $@
