https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53918
--- Comment #3 from Jacek Caban jacek@codeweavers.com --- (In reply to Zeb Figura from comment #2)
On the other hand, wouldn't we have still used --lib-suffix at that point?
Ah, right, it wasn't for building Wine itself, but for using winegcc as a tool for cross compiling external code. Installed importlibs never had .cross.a suffix.