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Re: [RFC] ready for cygport to default to gcc4?
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: Mailing List: CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:43:36 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFC] ready for cygport to default to gcc4?
- References: <49D55D4C.2090008@users.sourceforge.net>
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> Are maintainers ready for cygport-0.9 (for 1.7 only) to default to gcc4?
No.
gcc4 is still an *experimental* release:
"[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: experimental package: gcc4-4.3.2-2"
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00378.html
We shouldn't default to using it until the gcc maintainer is confident
enough in it to promote it officially. I know it's a bit of a
chicken/egg problem, but there you go.
(Besides, IIRC there is still an existing problem with g++, and
overriding operator new/delete. This would be a problem for xerces.)
--
Chuck