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Re: GCC dependencies (attn David Billinghurst)


Hi Yaakov,

On Aug 12 07:40, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 07:09 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 19:45 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > >   Yaakov, how is this going?  I see you haven't uploaded anything yet.  I'm
> > > back and able to resume maintainership duties if everyone would like.
> > 
> > That's good news, we were starting to be worried about you.
> > 
> > I was just getting KDE 4.7 out the door while I was waiting for David to
> > finish the deps.  Here is what I was planning to release:
> > 
> > http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/gcc4
> > 
> > Besides the version update to 4.5.3, there are several changes over the
> > distro 4.5.0, including:
> > 
> > * Linked against shared (instead of static) libintl.
> > * Fix shared libgnat installation.
> > * Fix Java NIO (patch may not be required with recent snapshots).
> > * Pass --large-address-aware when, and --tsaware only when, linking
> > EXEs.
> > * libtool fixup script actually changes .la files.
> > * Don't install GCC .la files so that the libtool fixup script will be
> > less needed in the future.
> > * Revise gcc4-java alternatives usage.
> > 
> > We'll all be glad -- myself included -- for you to resume gcc
> > development; I have only taken a cursory glance at 4.6.1 (and not even a
> > glance at gccgo), and I have no idea where trunk is holding.  If you've
> > got time to package stable branches on top of that, fine, otherwise I
> > could still handle the packaging side while you focus on development.
> > Either way, I think we really need a 4.5.3-2 with at least that patchset
> > out as soon as David can finish updating the deps.
> > 
> > Let me know how you'd like to proceed.
> 
> BTW, for those interested, I'm already working on updating the Fedora
> Cygwin toolchain to match the recent binutils/gdb releases and add the
> --large-address-aware patch, along with restoring cygwin-gcc-java for
> F15.

There's a small glitch in the cross toolchain:

  $ i686-pc-cygwin-gcc foo.c -o foo
  $ ls foo*
  foo  foo.c

Since foo is a Cygwin executable, shouldn't gcc append .exe?


Corinna

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