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Re: GCC maintainer going AFK.
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: Mailing List: CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:43:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: GCC maintainer going AFK.
- References: <02be01c93b70$65cf2520$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
Dave Korn wrote:
> I will try and stay attentive to the lists during this period; I am aware
> that I have a few outstanding emails to reply to, e.g. Marco A: I'm preparing
> a new release of gcc-4 with all DLLs for all the runtimes,
Does this also address Brian Dessent's concerns regarding
(1) versioning for cyggcc_s.dll?
(2) individual packages for each of the runtime DLLs
I think Brian makes a good argument for both...
> and that will be
> available fairly soon, but I have a problem with typeinfo vs. libstdc++ DLL
> that I am currently working on a patch for ld before it can function
> correctly.
Oh boy, I vaguely remember issues with vtables, typeinfo, and DLLs way
back when (2000ish?) ... that's downright hairy scary ugly stuff. Gives
me the screaming willies.
--
Chuck