Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/06/26/16:53:01
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:42 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: GCC 4.1.1
>
> "Frederich, Eric P21322" wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get gcc on Cygwin to the same version that I
> use on Linux
> > and Solaris (4.1.1).
> > There is no "need" for this, but it would be nice to have
> all platforms
> > I'm trying to support on the same version.
>
> I'm really not sure why you're doing this, and especially why
> if you're going to
> use a 4.x release you're using sucn an old one. If anything,
> I'd use the 4.3
> branch, since it contains a lot of things relevant to Cygwin
> like a modern
> libtool.
>
> Anyway, the 3.4 packaged version of gcc has a number of local
> fixes that aren't
> upstream, so if you want a stable compiler then you should
> use this one, not a
> FSF release. You should know what these issues are and if
> they matter to you
> before using a version of gcc built yourself. If gcc4 was
> stable on Cygwin
> there would be packages for it, it's not just a matter of
> nobody having time to
> build them.
>
> With that out of the way, it's possible to get -mno-cygwin
> working with gcc4
> just fine, it shouldn't take any patches. You'll of course
> have to build gcc
> again as the MinGW version, and set up some symlinks. See
> the postinstall of
> the gcc package for details.
>
> Brian
Thanks a bunch. I will use the 3.4 that came with cygwin. It is not
worth the hassle to get gcc 4 working if it is not straight forward and
will not be stable. Like I said, I'm not doing anything that needs gcc
4 support.
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