Merge pull request #1807 in HDFFV/hdf5 from ~BYRN/hdf5_adb:develop to develop

* commit 'e19b0302cc38d1850ada7a00431511343cddc8a6': (31 commits)
  HDFFV-10845 update note
  Correct format of drive check
  Use generator expr to get correct name
  HDFFV-10845 Allow mingw to find functionality
  HDFFV-10845 fix comment syntax
  HDFFV-10845 Windows drive can only goto Z
  HDFFV-10845 make flags private
  Correct java load library name access
  Correct syntax
  Fix typo
  Correct OUTPUT_NAME usage
  CMake generator expr cannot be used in get_property cmd
  HDFFV-1045 gcc static must be link flags
  HDFFV-10845 quote multiple strings in cmake link command
  HDFFV-10845 update mingw cmake changes
  Add missing target root path, check other export macro
  HDFFV-10845 skip test if CMake command doesn't support ignore EOL
  HDFFV-10845 copy files with windows EOL
  HDFFV-10845 separate test used by copy windows files
  HDFFV-10845 mingw needs special windows reference files
  ...

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 6be1d7f..fe40021 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -50,13 +50,26 @@ New Features
     -------------
     - Windows PDB files are always installed
 
-      There are configuration settings for Windows, that may not generate
-      PDB files. As such the install utility will break because those files
-      are not found. Add an optional variable that can be set to not install
-      PDB files.
+      There are build configuration or flag settings for Windows that may not
+      generate PDB files. If those files are not generated then the install
+      utility will fail because those PDB files are not found. An optional
+      variable, DISABLE_PDB_FILES, was added to not install PDB files.
 
       (ADB - 2019/07/17, HDFFV-100424)
 
+    - Add mingw CMake support with a toolchain file
+
+      There has been a number of mingw issues that has been linked under
+      HDFFV-10845. It has been decided to implement the CMake cross-compiling
+      technique of toolchain files. We will use a linux platform with the mingw
+      compiler stack for testing. Only the C language is fully supported, and
+      the error tests are skipped. The C++ language works for static but shared
+      builds has a shared library issue with the mingw Standard Exception Handling
+      library, which is not available on Windows. Fortran has a common cross-compile
+      problem with the fortran configure tests.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/07/12, HDFFV-10845, HDFFV-10595)
+
     - Windows PDB files are installed incorrectly
 
       For static builds, the PDB files for windows should be installed next