Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/10/04/20:26:16
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:16:58PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:09:15PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>> >On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> >>>I've repeatedly asked for someone to take over maintainership of gcc.
>> >>>If you are producing packages on your web site can I ask you go to all
>> >>>of the way and maintain gcc for cygwin?
>> >>
>> >>I'm thinking about it for a while now. Ok. I'll release a first
>> >>tarball the next week, including all frontends and Pascal as previously
>> >>advertised.
>> >
>> >While you're at it, I'd (again) suggest splitting it in various parts.
>> >Most people only install C and C++. The rest takes a lot of space,
>> >mainly Java and Ada.
>>
>> Yes, I was going to suggest that, too.
>
>> This is clearly the right way to do this but it is a lot more
>> work.
>
>Yes, but once you get it set up in the script...
>
>I don't know how Cygwin handles it (maybe I should download
>some source packages - I'll), but the Linux distributions seem
>to just split it without recompiling the whole thing various
>times with --enable-languages=c++ (you don't need to specify
>c), then --enable-languages=c++,java etc.
Oh, yes. I wouldn't recompile multiple times. That would take forever.
It is already pretty frustrating to make a change to the source tree,
recompile, and then find twenty minutes later that something is broken
in libjava (one of the last things to compile).
If I was doing this, I'd probably write a filter which detected what was
being installed by java, libstdc++, etc. and then build tar files based
on that.
It would be nice to break out the libstdc++ package as well.
>An example which works and may help Gerrit (I use the resulting
>C and C++ packages) is the 3.3.1 script from Slackware -
>http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-current/testing/source/gcc-3.3.1/gcc.SlackBuild
>
>I guess Cygwin doesn't need a separate C++ package.
I think it does, really. But, this will probably cause massive
confusion for people who'd previously installed.
cgf
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